>> good morning everyone, it's sunday, august 5th, i'm alisyn camerota and we begin with extreme weather in oklahoma where raging wildfires reduced more than >> alisyn: now for news by the five dozen homes to nothing more than ash and rubble. if that wasn't enough. making matters worse, more on sub the devastation there straight numbers, 60,000, evacuated from ahead. >> dave: plus, we are just 93 days away from the the election. two republican darlings are the la palooza music festival being pitched to mitt romney as potential vp choices, but and highland park, michigan, will be closing three district schools and will turn them over do they have a shot? to a private, for-profit charter >> thank you, darling. school company to avoid and railroad robbery. financial collapse and now the district is $16 million in the taxpayer funded amtrak is

red. and the charter group will losing nearly 4 million handle staffing and curriculum dollars a year on employee theft. and next, $9 billion, that is and wait until you hear what how much mark zuckerberg lost they're taking. "fox & friends" begins right since facebook went public in now. ♪ may. we should start collecting donations for him. >> clayton: chump change. >> dave: what will he do. >> clayton: i like that. >> good morning, everybody. >> dave: good thing he dresses like a homeless person... he thanks so much for getting up early with us and joining us. doesn't have to... >> thank you for joining us. >> clayton: oh, my. >> you know what? i've decided to come to work that is how we welcome in anna. occasionally. >> you're welcome. all right? >> thank you. and did you watch the >> dave: he only spends, like 20 olympics. >> clayton: water polo, water bucks on a hoody. polo. >> alisyn: this time of the show i used to play water polo. we are slap-happy. >> dave: there's a double how do you get the body of an amputee competing in the olympics, michael phelps olympian. >> with the olympics in full saying goodbye to the swing everybody is trying to get olympics, the greatest athlete the gold medal body and in honor of all time in the olympics and water polo. of the olympics i hit the gym to try to train like an olympian, >> clayton: and hoping to watch squash later this week, check it out. too. >> huh? 10,500 athletes from 204 >> i did watch handfall for countries are vying for some three minutes. really, we have no softball, 4700 medals, expected to be

no baseball, but we have handed out at the 2012 summer handball, what? olympics in london. >> they couldn't pull this although most of us only wish we had a physique like an olympian, off. >> clayton: i don't know what this is, what handball. >> dave: i'll demonstrate a new fitness class is helping every day folks try their best. here. >> alisyn: thank you, real' look forward to that. >> hope solo, abs like michael and the sport of politics is on everyone's minds, including phelps or legs like lolo jones, the week coming up. the new york sports club is as the vice-president is holding a class to help announced and it's going to gym-goers get the olympic body happen at some point this of their dreams, i'm able to get month and there's a new in on the action and see if i'm article, by bill crystal and steven hayes, who the top two medal-worthy. the london edition features picks should be for mitt rowing, boxing, gymnastics and romney. >> and bill crystal famously picked sarah palin as the one circuit-style training sculpts and come on, where, who? what are you talking about, specific body parts of current and former members of team bill crystal and suddenly out u.s.a. >> to get into the spirit of of the blue, you had sarah palin as the choice, but here olympics, a lot of is that quote from the weekly cardiovascular training and standard. endurance and strength training go bold, mitt, pick paul ryan, and you work your legs, arms and especially your heart. the republican party's intellectual leader, the man >> the signature moves include who laid out the core of the post obama policy agenda and the lolo, and the sugar ray... had gotten his colleagues in congress to sign onto it or for sugar arms and, the tone

pick marco rubio they write, quad. >> this is one of the best ways the gifted politician, to lose fat. and, go, go, go and yet you will embodies what is best about the tea party and the vision of a broad based governing be sweaty at the end. >> reporter: to get into the majority of the future. olympic spirit, they'll compete that again from steven hayes against their personal best and and bill crystal. against each other. >> yeah, it will be whoever completes the most reps interesting, because you like, it's going to happen probably during the workout wins and yes, in the next week, if you look a gold medal is awarded at the at the schedule for the romney end of each class. campaign, a bus tour kicks off [applause]. >> and ben didn't bring home the august 10th, virginia, nock, gold but channeled his inner athlete. >> get to challenge yourself and it is kind of low pressure but florida, ending on august you can drive yourself to really perform at your highest level. 13th. i'm tired, but i'm ready to go and make sense to roll out the again and i'm proud of myself. vp pick in the bus tour. >> reporter: to find a class near you go to mysportsclub.com. >> and they're going to say, that he should pick marco rubio, but he needs to show >> the london calling edition is offered to members and off support and president nonmembers of new york sports club at select locations obama is winning over mitt throughout the month of august and the good news about the romney in hispanics by 63-27 medals, guys, you don't have to in critical swing states, if pay a thousand dollars in tax on you pick marco rubio. them. >> alisyn: are you sure? don't let anyone say that... >> dave: mainly florida. >> clayton: uncle sam. >> alisyn: it would shore up >> you know the big news was, at

florida and the argument that he needs florida to win. -- the retirement community is but of course, there's having a senior olympics there compelling reasons to pick and this is a picture from the paul ryan as well. charlotte observer, a >> clayton: the guy who laid out the budget division for 96-year-old holding the torch and they are playing ping-pong the future of the republican and horse shoes and, grandma got party and shaking things up and forcing president obama's the booby prize, last place in hand to make some concessions on the budget and to actually have to acknowledge what this horse shoes. is all about, although bobby >> dave: she finished the workout... >> it is a ten day deal they are jindal of louisiana, governor doing there, they had opening of louisiana has been floated and closing ceremonies. a bit and floated last time in 2008 although i don't know >> clayton: a booby prize... this time around. >> dave: well, jindal, appears, is on the rubio >> i never heard of that, but, train, listen. she'll be practicing her wii >> and something like a line bowling. >> dave: i can relate to that. which had a powerful message >> clayton: a mario cart -- look that this administration was serious about tackling out for him! >> alisyn: mario. thank you. medicare reform and doing so always great. in a courageous way. >> dave: i meant the paul ryan more "fox & friends.".. train, obviously. but, it comes down to one >> clayton: we'll be back in two and two. thing for romney, does he go oh, you're good! bold? he hasn't gone bold with much hey, did you know that honey nut cheerios is...

oh you too! thus far, it's not his style, ooh, hey america's favorite cereais... not how he campaigns. he hasn't made a whole lot of honey nut cheerios bold moves throughout this. ok then off to iceland! will he go with a pawlenty or a portman or bold with one of these two choices. i'd love to see this on the ticket. i don't think it's likely. >> alisyn: according to the weekly standard between marco rubio and paul ryan. if case you've forgotten. florida senator and why he sven's home security gets the most rewards would shore that up. the former speaker of the of any small business credit card! how does this thinwork? house there. and he is dubbed the chief or oh, i like it! crowned prince of course the [ garth ] sven's small business earns 2% casback son of cuban immigrants. on every purche, every day! woo-hoo!!! so that ten security gators, right? >> wisconsin on the other side there, paul ryan, congressman put them on my spark card! why settle for less? there, the chairman of the testing hot tar... house budget committee and great businesses deserve the most rewards! also, he introduced that bill [ male announcer ] the ark business card from capital one. to cut entitlement spending choose unlimited rewards with 2% cash back which we talked about and says or double miles on every purchase, every day! he's inspired about is the what's in your wallet? here's your invoice. author. >> dave: you initially heard republican conservatives say that rubio is not ready, not experienced enough.

it'd be hard to make that argument from the left, obviously, he's arguably quite a bit more experienced from the current president. i don't know who would make that argument if rubio were the case. maybe the next four or five days. >> and who would you like to see as the vice-presidential pick for mitt romney? you can find it on twitter or friends@foxnews.com. look at your headlines. sources are telling that jared loughner, is accused of going on the shooting rampage in arizona, and six killed ap several injured, including gabrielle giffords who has shot in the head. they are going to testify that he is sane. he could be sent to prison the rest of his life. >> and in oklahoma, people return to their home and find nothing, but ashes in the wake of massive wildfire that ripped through the area and

they say it was possible it was set on purpose after reports of someone throwing burning newspapers from a pickup truck. the dry conditions fueling the flames and destroying 5 dozen homes. >> we didn't go full on blitz of getting everything out, because we just, i didn't feel it was really going to get here. >> and meanwhile, several other fires are burning through the state forcing people from their homes in creek and payne county. a homicide bomber in a funeral service in yemen, part of the civilian militia helping the army fight al-qaeda. the government is launching an investigation into the attack and yemeni officials say that five suspected militants were killed earlier in the day, a possible u.s. drone strike. and couldn't construct a better finish for michael phelps. ♪ >> dave: what an olympics it was, in the last olympic race,

>> clayton: welcome back to "fox & friends." the u.s. grabs gold in the earlier on the show we talked relay and phelps 22nd overall about socket, rhode island, and medical and 18th gold. i threw out the challenge, could lifetime achievement they show us a town name that recognizing him as the most was more interesting. >> alisyn: name one. >> clayton: boy, did you. decorated olympian ever. >> dave: twinsberg, ohio. >> clayton: where rick was all >> and i said to nathan, oh, this morning, that wasn't one of here they come, this could be them. lick skillet, alabama. pretty brutal up here and they from michael on twitter, lick started coming and i tried to fight it, but then i just, i skillet, intercourse, just decided to let it go and pennsylvania. >> dave: no. >> clayton: yeah. whatever happen, happen. you drive right through it. >> can't believe he won't swim yeah, chris knows all about it, again. he won four gold, two sell drive right through it on -- what else do we have here... versus at this year's game. twice as many gold medals as >> alisyn: anyone who has ever competed in the game. >> alisyn: incredible. >> dave: but the fact he says he's done at 27 and doesn't want to swim into his 30's. he could easily come back and win a gold if not two. >> clayton: i think he'll probably hit the local community pool, yeah. >> dave: the next place he might swim, south after ka

with great white sharks. >> clayton: tip, don't worry the gold shiny things around your neck when air swimming with the sharks, my tip for you. >> alisyn: rick reichmuth is in a fun festival in ohio seeing trouble this morning twinsburg, ohio. >> rick: i'm not yet because it's dark behind me yet, but trust me, they're around. there are twins everywhere, we pulled in yesterday and look at the gas station, there's twins and you go to the little store, there's twins every place, eating dinner so this is the 37th year that twinsburg, ohio held the festival and this year, about 2000 different sets of twins here and we'll talk to a lot of them. about to run a 5 k and gathering around in a second and i do want to talk about the weather, there's obviously a lot going on. there's the fires, potential hurricane, the heat and some big rain, also. here are your temps as are' waking up. far improved from yesterdayen

because the gold front is moving through and kind after cool front, but it's changing things down quite a bit. you can see the significant rain going through places that desperately need it. down towards oklahoma and in fact that line of showers that makes its way down to oklahoma city, it will help conditions there with the fire and it's also going to change the wind direction around and unfortunately make things difficult for the fighting of the fires for at least a little bit of time. today, a threat for more severe weather and you see the yellow and the storms off to the west of that, that's what we'll continue to track off to the east and as it does, spark some significant storms and see a severe weather outbreak. a lot of areas need the rain and we're going to take it and there's ernesto and the one more immediate for impact to land and see the track has pulled farther south than yesterday and maybe making

land fall around belize and we cannot take our eye off south texas for this one. and two women who have written a book about being twins all their lives. >> clayton: double mint twins. >> dave: and maybe fill nuss on the harrowing journey to get there. it took about an entire day to get there. he'll tell us later on. >> clayton: let me ask you, have you ever taken the amtrak train. >> alisyn: all the time. >> clayton: and most of us in the northeast. do you ever go back to the food cart area. >> alisyn: all the time. >> clayton: ali does, dave does, have you ever ordered the hamburger in a bag? >> no, i-- i've seen that and mystery meat sandwich. >> clayton: 9.50. turns out amtrak, we're learning more about amtrak, how much money they're losing over 800 million dollars since 2002 on their food service. because people simply aren't

buying the food back in the food cart or it's overpriced. >> alisyn: not so fast, it's not that people aren't buying it, they are buying it, it's they think it's employee theft. >> dave: a couple million dollar a year, not the 80. >> alisyn: are you sure, but there are employee theft. lack of proper oversight and waste, by the way when i go to the food cart there's a line 12 people deep you have to wait to buy it and lost 80 million a year because they just screwed up the management of the food. >> dave: and labor costs adds 60%, every food and beverage, 9.50 that clayton talked about, costs amtrak, $16 according to one analysis. >> clayton: and therefore taxpayers. >> dave: and a soft drink, two bucks on the train costs taxpayers, 3.40. what's the point of an additional service if that service loses you money? only at amtrak. >> clayton: well, democrats

argue and democratic congressmen from west virginia saying, wait a second, republicans want to get rid of the food service jobs, about 1200, privatize them get rid of the jobs, 1200 will be lost as a result of, i don't know, downsizing the food service on amtrak, but it's so wasteful they have never broken even. >> never, never. 1981, they've never-- >> i will have congressman john micah's quote overseas, he says, there has to be a better way. we have to stop this subsidy, why are we subsidizing the tasteless turkey sandwich. >> clayton: and the $9 burger in a bag. >> alisyn: and they think that people have just been raiding the till because basically there are two different amtrak departments, that oversee the foods and this one dropped the ball. there's no accountability and they're just losing scads and

scads of money. you could probably get a sam adams from time to time. the $8 version. >> dave: the convention is weeks away and now a muslim group plans to hold pro islamic events during the democratic national convention and our next guest is concerned, hear why straight ahead. >> alisyn: and this isn't exactly what they were fishing for-- >> is it what was that? that's a baby crying for help after it got caught in a whirlpool and three fishermen come to the rescue. >> dive in to help the bear? ♪

>> welcome back to "fox & friends," everybody. just weeks away from the conventions and we're learning that the bureau of indigenous muslim affairs is asked to hold a mass prayer during the dnc and a spokesperson says that everyone is invited to attend, but just who is the group and why is our next guest showing concern for the three-day event. the author of a battle for the soul of islam, joins us this morning, good to see you, sir. >> good to see you, dave. >> who is the group, and why you are concerned? >> and you know, i tell you, dave, i think the most important thing as a muslim, pro islamic to reject bmia, one of the permtations, and the others. if you look at their background, and a quick research and see huff who is advertised in the charlotte observer, he ran a group called the islamist political

party in america in 2008 a spokesperson and that's a group that has the muslim brotherhood about the islamic state, imposing sharia and then wahaj the poster child for this. and i was giving a speech, to over 15,000 muslims held up the koran and said the goal was to replace the u.s. constitution with the koran and they are against american military. so, i think it's time to say that, you know, the dnc and its leadership should reject them and say they don't represent muslims and i hope that muslims, the patriotic muslims in the democratic group say it's a bad reflection of what it stands for. >> dave: what's the difference between the two, the democrats and the group we're

discussing? >> so far, there's been little comment from the democrats about this event and they even said they are going to the republican convention, also. and instead of prayer, they're going to have a checklist for the candidates about the condemning the n.y.p.d., the same thing that so many american islamist groups they're going to push on the platform of the democratic convention, it's important that you're covering this, it's important to hear what they feel about the idealogs and say it's not about religious freedoms it's about a political islamist group of with ideas with a threat to american security. >> dave: we're not sure how much they embrace this group and they have the right to deny holding this gathering?

>> they're listed as part of the functions of the dnc convention and i think for any radical group decide today participate peripherally dnc convention i think the dnc should be held accountable for groups who affiliate with the platform and so far no pressure, and they're sort of giving them the platformpartici and i think they should be held accountable for that. >> an offer for the battle of the soul of islam. thank you for being with us. have a good weekend. >> thank you, dave. >> a heart breaking cry for help, a baby bear trapped in a whirlpool rescued by fishermen, amazing. we'll hear the story next. and as michael phelps gets another gold, he may be spared when it comes to paying taxes on his success. the latest efforts being made by congress ahead. ♪

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>> it was supposed to be a fishing trip for fish not bears. but three friends in alaska came upon a bear cub in distress stuck in a whirlpool and knew they had to help. >> listen to it cry out for help in the video they captured. a somebody on the boat the bear crying. . [bear crying] >> don't want him to drown. >> and after smart maneuvering, the three men

were able to help get the bear to safely. >> joining us on the phone, one of the three fishingermen, mike, good to talk to you this morning. >> good morning, guys, thanks for having me. >> it's amazing to have you on the phone. tell us what your initial reaction was when you started hearing the sound and discovered where the sound is coming from, what are you thinking? >> guys, it was completely surreal. like it wasn't happening. i mean, you expect to see bears out in nature on these trips, but never expect to run into something quite like that. we were actually all stunned and just looking at each other in amazement what should we do to try to help the poor thing. >> how did you figure out what to do next. >> we never actually figured it out. it was trial and error, more like the three stooges out there going around in circles with the poor thing until we were lucky enough to give it out of the current and a poking with the net to get it

to shore if it were dave and i, wonder how we would go about saving a bear and the thing that it could rip your arm off. >> did that come into consideration. >> the bear want today get into the boat. and really badly, it was so distressed, but knowing that mom is on shore, puts us down a couple of pegs on the food chain, guys, and to get that poor thing in the boat, mom would have definitely came out of the woods and said enough is enough and that's what we were mostly worried about. >> and obviously, we wouldn't be speaking with you, if there wasn't a happy ending here. >> and tell us about finally getting this baby bear to the shore. what happened next and how did that feel for you guys? what were your emotions at that point? >> and it was, it was amazing. that poor guy was so gassed, and he barely made it to shore. when he gets up on shore, it took every ounce of his energy

to get up innen ott rock and into the woods and looked one more time and looked back, one little cry and talking three pretty tough guys and there wasn't a dry eye in the boat. we were all pretty happy. >> and mike, because of the situation in midtown manhattan. what did you do? what did you finally do to save him? >> what we finally did was we got luck and just going in circles, he came up on the side of the boat and broke the currents of that eddie and i gave him one good shove with the net and he was off to shore. so i think that was god's answer to my prayers, being a cubs and bears fans all my life. >> oh. (laughter) >> did you fish that day. >> our concentration for fishing was broken for the day

and only one trout. >> and if only the bear would-- >> the bear is going to be on timeout eating berries for quite some time. >> what time is it in alaska guys, it's 2:27 here, but my pleasure getting up to be on. >> a trooper. >> the pleasure was all ours. >> thanks for having me, guys. >> i swear that bear was saying, bear, bear! was i the only thing thinking that? >> or asking for a bear. >> bear, bear. >> alisyn: thanks for interpreting that. and the mayor blocking rises for firefighters to give raises to his top advisors.

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>> as you guys no, i sat next to one. >> you did. >> alisyn: we're going to learn a new skill, i go right to the top. as you guys have made fun of me for my archery skills. >> clayton: appalling. >> alisyn: appalling. i decided to enlist the help of an olympian who came in fourth and on fox files tonight. here we are talking about the incredible popularity of the hunger games. fox files sat down with u.s. olympic champion archer. he trained actress jennifer lawrence to shoot like a pro. >> first i asked her have you ever shot arrows before? she said, no, absolutely never shot a bow and arrow in the real life. >> what's the first thing you start with. >> generally start withstands, alignment, drills, which you

stand properly when you're holding the bow. >> it was very, very exciting to see my students actually on the screen and i think she nailed it really well. >> she apparently knew about as much as when she started. >> and it's interesting maybe were you foreshadowing the nbc coverage, the most popular cable event as of three days ago, archery, 1.2 million viewers every time it's aired, more than in men's basketball team, love it. >> wow. >> more than the dream team two or three. >> and shows how popular it is. >> dave: and hunger games responsible for that. >> clayton: in the plaza you put the arrow backwards. >> alisyn: and like steve martin. tune it tonight at 9 p.m. if you want to see my archery skills. >> we talked about michael phelps at the olympics and boy, 22 overall medals, 18 of them gold and when you add

that up, unfortunately makes for a massive tax bills because the united states athletes have to pay taxes on all the medals. $9,000 on a gold, so on and so forth, down to $3500 for a bronze. >> clayton: okay, so do the math using my trusty calculator. phelps gets $25,000 per gold. any athlete gets $25,000 per gold medal. so for michael phelps they're not all gold, if they were about $550,000. that's how much he would get paid and then the amount of the taxes at $9,000 per medal on that, and that's how much taxes he'd have to pay for going over and representing his country overseas. >> alisyn: ifs' in the highest tax bracket, probably is. in any event there's now a bipartisan effort to not have our proud olympians have to pay taxes on the gold medals they won for our country. and mary is fighting for this. >> they're the not there to

win money, that's ridiculous, they're there to show that they're the best in the world and perhaps more importantly, there to show that the united states is the best in the world. you know, that's what this is all about, very importantly, would be retroactively and the olympians could be covered. >> that ought to be good news for them. >> especially michael fleps. >> dave: it's not really at that cut and try on this. does michael phelps need a break, no. today rogers, a men's beach volleyball player, i don't need the break, happy to pay the taxes. and a lot of athletes struggle to got by and don't make money on endorsements and those you feel for, and coming home and forking over 9 grand. and missy franklin, won gold medals and she wants to go to college, she doesn't get endorsements.

and fork over $40 grand. >> and others, parents are in foreclosure, and they're not in the same tax bracket who have won for years and years, even $5,000. >> the money doesn't come in right away. someone like gabby douglas will make an awful lot down the road, but it's a bipartisan sport to eliminate the tax. that's a tough one. >> clayton: we'll see how it goes. is it go to foxnews.com, should olympic athletes have to pay tax on their medals. >> alisyn: a pickup truck loses control in a texas mall killing a little girl. the 84-year-old driver hit four children and two adults, one of the kids, seven-year-old girl died and all others are expected to survive and the driver was taken to the hospital and his condition is unknown and family says he may have gone into a diabetic shock, causing

the crash. and of mayor michael nutter says that it strains finances, but back in january restored salaries for top staffer and cut their pay and his own pay in 2009 to decrease cutbacks to libraries and pools and the finance board will decide whether firefighters should receive raises. and in rhode island, pledging to do whatever he can to protect a 91-year-old war memorial. earlier this year, wisconsin atheists groups demanded the cross be removed claiming is violates the first amendment and the mayor says the request won't be met without a fight. >> this is as chose to a grave stone as the families have here on the united states soil. we will defend no matter what snoof residents raised nearly 19,000 in case the atheist

group takes the case to court. cl clayton, take us to mars. >> clayton: the curiosity rover is set to enter mars atmosphere, travelling 13,000 miles per hour before touching the surface and people are calling it seven minutes of terror because there's going to be a communications delay between earth and mars and they're going to have to wait for seven minutes to see if it lands safely. and so, in that seven minutes, they won't know whether or not this multi-million dollar mission will have been a sow, they're going to see if there's life. >> and look for microbial remnants and to see if there's actually life there and we have to be honest with you, if this fails, the whole mars program can be thrown into jeopardy as a result of this. they're sort of pinning the future manned mission to mars on this particular rover landing.

>> and probably here in our studio. >> sure. >> on the couch. >> meanwhile, it may feel like you're seeing double this morning, and rick reichmuth certainly is, down at the annual twins day festival and twinsburg, ohio, rick, i'm so glad to see you there. i'm not sure with your harr harrowing journey, not sure you'd ever make it to twinsburg. >> i wasn't sure either. >> it was about a nine hour flight to get 9 hours and 20 minutes, i'm here and it's good and i'm joined now by my first set of twins. i've got to tell you, this is going to be a really fun day and i've got katherine and market king, going on for 37 years, twins gathering here and this is your first year, what's your impression of what you see in the last couple of days? >> it's absolutely mind-boggling to see thousands and thousands of twins and you look from one to the other. and it's just amazing to see so many twins. >> and a the lot of people,

i'm the youngest of five and my older brothers were almost the same agen i felt like i wanted a twin and you hear people say that all the time and they wish they had the bond that you guys have. >> they do, they say that all the time. what's it like to be a twin and if our answer is, what's it like not to be a twin. we have no idea. >> we have no idea. >> you guys were telling me that you realized early on that you could get away with pranks or getting out of trouble or into trouble really early on. how did this all start? >> well, we, we learned early on that we could get away with things because we looked so much alike. and the first day of first grade, we switched classesment we were in separate classes, and we never looked back, it was easy, the teachers could not tell us apart and we found that was an easy thing to do. >> so you two live together now. >> we do, we live together. >> inspeperable. >> inseparable.

>> do you do stuff apart at all. >> not much, we enjoy just being together and we get the double take all the time. >> of course. >> and we love that. >> and did you have any other siblings. >> we have two brothers, bill and alan and a sister. >> and do they feel left out of your bond? >> probably. >> we hope so. (laughter) >> hey, you've written a back and people can buy this book and give the donation. >> to the melanoma research foundation, go online, y'all twins.com, and buy the book and we'll give a donation. >> rick: and that's important because this event is raising money for the same foundation. >> from the sale of the paper back book, great meeting you. >> and rick, later, some of the stuff i grew up of if you pitch one twin, the other

would feel it? this is what plagues me. >> alisyn: that's in your mind. >> dave: missed that early on. >> clayton: some science behind it we'll also talk about millions of your tax dollars paying for food stamps for people who don't need them. so is this just some people taking advantage of the system or the system broken? >> 50 years after her death, marilyn monroe still an american icon. we take a look back at the blond bombshell's legacy and another side of her that very few people know about. ♪ while some fiber ads use super models, metamucil uses super hardworking psyllium fiber,

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marilyn monroe performance. ♪ i want to be loved by you and nobody else, but you ♪ ♪ i want to be loved by you, tweedly tweedly dum ♪ the death of the blond beauty and the paradox. >> hello, that's-- >> nice to have you. and lois, 50 years since marilyn monroe's death. what is so captivating about her? >> well, i think it comes through in that segment you did from "let's make move." she had a powerful sexuality and a kind of innocence that both went together and a little girl kind of joyfulness that appealed to both men and women and really was the basis of her iconic appeal in the 1950's, carried over to today.

>> alisyn: and of course, her book, you talk about that very paradox and it makes her so beguiling. which was she? was she the child-like naive girl or the savvy sex pot? >> well, she was both of those, but she was a lot more as well. she was a very, very intelligent. she overcame a lot of disabilities as well as a really difficult childhood. she made herself into a star. she did a lot of this through her own cleverness and her own ability to be charismatic and attract people to her and see found the best mentors in hollywood and persuaded them to help her create the character of marilyn monroe. >> alisyn: she had a rough childhood and spent her childhood in 11 different

homes, including an orphanage and suffered abuse. >> the 11 different parents in the homes were relatives of her guardian, grace potter, which made things a little better. she knew the families before she moved into them, but then she didn't know the inside of the family, the in's and outs, and she said and i think she was probably correct. she wasn't treated as well as the other children in the families. >> alisyn: and you also say that something that i didn't know, that marilyn had aliases, she wore disguises, she had secret friends, she had secret apartments. was that all just to avoid the limelight? >> well, no, it was very much a part of the monroe character. one of her close friends said about her that she loved to live her life like a spy story, another friend said that her life was more dramatic than any movie she was ever in. and that she loved the drama and that being so secretive

and keeping separate from other people really appealed to her at the same time that she had lots of friends, marriages, and a regular life. >> again, the book is called marilyn, the passion and the paradox. thanks for coming in this morning to talk about it. >> thank you. >> all right, well, it's now official, you cannot use food stamps to buy marijuana. wait, were people really doing that? yes and wait until you hear what else people can buy with food stamps. meanwhile, scientists have discovered the key to happy marriage. the answer is more fighting. we'll explain. ♪ by you alone ♪ i couldn't aspire of to anything higher ♪ ♪ than to fill the desire to make you my own ♪ ♪ i want to be loved by you

>> the department of agriculture putting a stop to individuals deducting medical marijuana expenses from income in order to qualify for food stamps. the problem doesn't end there. 460 million dollars worth of food stamp benefits went to households with incomes over the federal eligibility limits. is the system broken? the co-founder of 365, david webb. >> good to see you. >> and when i first read this the other day i was shocked that you could have a deduction for medical marijuana expenses in your -- in your taxes at all. how is this possible? how did this get there in the first place? >> well, it's typical this happens when you have a federal programs and states with different laws and

federal supremacy laws, trump the substance and how it's treated and so, this, unfortunately, it's still illegal. >> it's still illegal federally and we don't have uniform laws across the state on medical marijuana and its application and how it should be even distributed. look at the difference in california, new jersey. >> and so i'm confused. i mean, it's still illegal federally. but you have the u.s. department of agriculture was allowing you to have this deduction and able to use it. that's a federal agency. so i don't get it. >> and one of the problems that we have with government inefficiency and accountability that you don't have uniformity or you don't use technology as a solution. >> right. >> in other words, what's not allowed and what is allowed under these programs and again, the fight is going on for some time between the states and the federal government on medical marijuana. >> people are picking on the food stamp program and caveats and things that people are going to buy on food stamps.

>> it's not prohibited, it's not allowed and somebody makes it up in this case an agency. so much wasten abuse and how are people getting food stamps, we have he been reporting on the show and we've talked about this, more than 46 million people in the program, costs about 80 billion dollars a year, but so much fraud. 460 million dollars worth of that going to households above the limit. so, you have to prove the snap limit in your home, you have to make a certain amount if you have a couple or living alone and prove to the federal government that you make this amount of money to get on the snap program, how are the people skirting that and was there an error made? >> we've got to program that doubled, 17,000 plus people well over 46, 48,000 and growing. and when it comes to, there are two sides to this argument. one is in order to have people get in it who are eneligible, they're accepting it and people know they're getting something they shouldn't. on the other side, there's a breakdown in the program in the means test and the qualitycations and the follow-up. that's one of the problems we

have in the snap program and those benefits, 4 to 6 million dollars should go to people who need it if they need it. someone is losing if there's fraud. it's not a lot, but 40 to 60 million dollars. >> clayton: as a tea party guy, you're not against people getting food stamps, there's the fraud and waste. >> fraud, waste and inefficiency. this should be a system there for people to get temporary, the program, help americans below the poverty line in need, whatever the case may be, lost a job in this terrible economy, but when you have a system that's fraudulent on both sides and those who accept it and those who give out without accountability, the money gets wasted if. we have hundreds of billions of dollars in entitlemwaste on . >> so troubling, if we could actually tighten up the fraud and abuse we might end up having a balanced budget. >> they say you have a business in the margins, in other words, the nickel here,

the dime here, the dollar here, you can do the same thing in government and that's what you clean up. 100 billion, 2 billion, what you start doing, that's real money. >> this is what newt gingrich was talking about in the health and welfare system. >> thank you for joining us. >> you, too, unemployment rising 8.3%, what does it mean for the candidates going into the conventions. our political panel will weigh in on this next. and railroad robbery. taxpayer funded amtrak losing nearly 4 million dollars a year on employee theft. and stealing burgers back there? wait until you hear what they're taking. ♪ ♪ choose to do. you do what you do... because it matters. at hp we don't just believe in the power of technology.

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unless they pay up. why there's trouble in camelot. "fox & friends" hour two starts right now. ♪ . [rooster crowing] >> good sunday morning everybody, we've got some marital advice for you coming up. why getting upset, getting angry, letting it out is a good thing. why it can help your marriage, ali. and that's why i have a healthy marriage. thankfully she's asleep right now. >> clayton: dr. briggs in the house. a study coming up. angry can save your marriage. >> alisyn: to your headlines. air strikes in afghanistan have killed three al-qaeda leaders. and n.a.t.o. officials say one strike killed an explosives expert and his deputy while a second strike killed a leader who ran insurgent training camp. n.a.t.o. forces have been

aggressively hunting down taliban leaders. the gunman accused of shooting arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords, well, turns out he could spend the rest of his life behind bars and jared loughner who you see there, is set to admit to the massacre in tucson and six people died and 13 years injured in the attack and the expected plea comes as psychiatric experts are set to testify that the 23-year-old was sane back when he opened fi fire. take a look at this fire, it's still raging in creek county, oklahoma, people forced from their homes there and in the nearby county. and fire officials say this could be the worst fire season in oklahoma's history. and people returned to their homes and finding nothing, but ashes. look at that aftermath. investigators say it's possible that this was set on purpose after reports of someone throwing burning newspapers from a pickup

truck. >> we didn't go fill on blitz of getting everything out. because we just -- i didn't feel like it was going to get here. >> and five dozen homes were completely destroyed. well, the hyannis port lawn where the kennedy clan played football is off limits. the main house of the family compound was donated to the edward m kennedy institute, but now, the nonprofit says the grounds are only to be used for holding educational seminars and forums, so if family members want to use the lawn, pool or tennis courts on the property they will have to pay the institute. those are the headlines. >> and over to rick reichmuth over at twinsburg, ohio. and we'll show twins later on.

hey, ricky. >> rick: hey, yeah, big morning, a 5 k race and about a hundred of the twins are going to be running in the race of 4,000 twins descended on the town. let's talk about the weather, there isn't a lot going on. the fires obviously in oklahoma and the tropics that are heating up and the heat that we've been dealing with and severe weather again. and now you're seeing some of the rain showers here on the map. and that's good. you see the rain showers in towards parts of oklahoma and missouri and that's exactly where the drought is. so, we need it. this isn't going to bust the drought by any means, but it's going to bring at least some places a half inch of rain or so and they'll take it and for the fires in oklahoma going to reverse the wind direction a little bit and it will cause at least initially some problems with some of that firefighting, unfortunately, but the rain is good. you can see that on the map here and where you see the yellow, where the threat today is for severe weather. on the western side of that it's earlier in the day, go to the eastern side of the picture, it's later in the day

as the gold front continues to move on and a lot of places could be seeing some hail and strong winds. could be seeing some kind after direct show, six storms the same went through chicago, and more of that today. here are the tropics, tropical storm florence way out in the atlantic, a long ways away, but it could have east coast impact in ten days and the closer one is tropical storm ernesto, in the caribbean and it's forecast to get up to about hurricane strength and that's the official forecast and i think that's a generous forecast, but we're talking about something impacting somewhere around the yucatan peninsula in mexico or belize by wednesday and strengthen back in the gulf by the end of this week. by next weekend, areas of south texas need to be watching this one, we have plenty of time to do that and that's the good news. here is your high temperatures today. a little better.

and the temperatures are dropping a bit and baking so, so long and unfortunately the temps begin to climb into the tripp digits and end up in the 90's, big problems going on for so many people across the plains with the fires and the winds, a little bit after break, at least with some rain moving through today. guys. >> good, thank goodness, all right, rick, we'll check back with you, when you're seeing double. >> thanks, buddy. >> thanks, rick. >> let's talk about the vice-presidential race, that's a separate race from what's currently going on and the buzz is whether or not mitt romney is picking his vice-presidential choice soon. and some say it could be as early as tomorrow. and back off, i'll pick him when i want it pick him. and there are names floating of imports. >> one of the names at one point was bobby jindal, the governor of louisiana you haven't heard that recently, but jindal threw out a name who he thinks should be on the top of mitt romney's list. >> i think picking somebody

like a paul ryan would send a very powerful message that this administration was serious about tackling medicare reform entitlement reform, shrinking the size of government and doing so in a courageous way. >> alisyn: meanwhile, the weekly standard, there's an article there by two friends of the show you know them well, bill crystal and steven hayes and suggest that mitt romney goes bold and read to you what they have written. go bold, mitt, pick paul ryan, the republican party intellectual leader, laid out the core of the post obama agenda and gotten his colleagues in congress ormarco rubio, the man who embodies what is best about the tea party and broad-based governing majority of the future. p and bill kristol's advice previously, that john mccain

needed to pick sarah palin, and who, and suddenly a pick on the ticket. >> dave: but go bold is not mitt romney's typical play. never has, and at this point, i know he talked about the vp pick wouldn't make a difference, two, three days in terms of the news cycle. at this point what's going to shake up the race. we know where they both are on the economy. the economy is not going up or down dramatically. and what's going to shake up the race, the vp pick and the debates. maybe the vp pick-- >> we've got e-mails from viewers, lynn in pennsylvania writes, i prefer marco rubio or alan west. i like paul ryan and we need him where he is and i'd like

to see him run for president. >> dave: and that's a good point. he's doing good work there and why take him from the house. a good point. >> alisyn: steven says i like rubio, but brian makes a better impression. rubio appears too young, the wrap on him he's not experienced enough and the weekly standard shoots that down, saying he has had more experience than barack obama did when he became president. >> dave: right, look he's been a senator for couple years, and eight years in the florida house, two years as speaker of the house, and rubio, according to the latest poll, 30% of the hispanics in florida says they're more likely to vote for a romney rubio ticket than romney and anyone else, enough to decide the election in a pivotal state like florida. >> clayton: and ryan or rubio for vp each would be a strong message to our country that mitt romney is more serious after improving government efficiency and increasing private sector jobs than just winning the wte house.

>> alisyn: and here are tweets, from rebecca, romney should pick alan west as a running mate. that would be a bold move it's interesting, the and of say it's a parlor game who he's going to pick and doesn't matter at the end of the day, doesn't matter how people vote and there's a new york times poll that say that 74% of registered voters say the selection of a running mate does matter to them. >> dave: i think this year a lot more. >> clayton: dick cheney made news this past week with commentary about sarah palin what it may have done to the mccain ticket. so there are, you might not consciously think about it when you're in the voting booth, but when you see the name on the ticket maybe go one way or the other. >> dave: a lot of tweets for condi rice as a vp pick. meanwhile, what's the point. if you're a business in the united states and you add a service, the point is pretty simple, right? make money, make some sort of profit. turn some sort of profit, but apparently at amtrak, turning

a profit not the goal. because they're not doing so much of that these days. >> alisyn: yeah, the food that's offered on an amtrak train, if you've ever ridden and certainly in the nor east corridor, they have a cafe car. that cafe car as i can attest, usually 12 people deep by the time i get there. five minutes into the trip. and several people for a dry turkey sandwich. >> clayton: or a burger in a bag. there's so much waste associated with this, they only have 10 items. a burger, diet coke and a beer. how difficult is it to turn a profit on this. they say that there's no oversite and end of the line when they get to the town or destination and someone is snot locking up the door and there's employee theft. >> people are hungry and thirsty on a train and you'd

think they could turn a profit, but because there's not enough oversight and people have been stealing from the till among other things, they lose 80 million a year. >> dave: a year, 60% labor adds 60% to every food and beverage item. so, john micah, congressman from florida made a big issue, holding up an mcdonald's hamburger, reporting out that the 9.50 hamburger on the train cost taxpayers, $16. $2 soda costs taxpayers 3.40. and they want to privatize food and beverage service, makes sense. >> alisyn: he says in this time of belt tightening why are taxpayers around the country subsidizing amtrak for their food service? it doesn't stand to reason. >> clayton: yeah, then you could think about it on an amtrak, get like mcdonald's to open up an mcdonald's on the train. or-- >> why not. >> clayton: i heard a groan. an egg mcmuffin instead of

some weird thing in the bag. >> dave: i'm getting hungry. >> alisyn: even for mystery-- >> coming up, unemployment jumped to 8.3%, so what does this mean for the candidates going into the conventions? could it push mitt romney to the top? there's our political panel. we'll ask him next. >> alisyn: a good looking panel indeed. then, you know about companies sending jobs overseas, now, one city is outsourcing the education department because of the budget woes, is that the answer? ♪ wake up! that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. fohalf the calories plus vgie nutrition. could've had a v8.

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>> welcome back. unemployment jumped to 8.3%, so what does it mean for the

candidates going into the conventions? could it push mitt romney to the top? we're joined by our political panel this morning, radio host tony katz and angela mcglowan and congressional candidate and founder of civil discourse allianc alliance. >> thank you for having us. >> dave: jobs number, pretty good, 160,000 jobs added pretty good, reverses the trend anyway, but the unemployment rate continues to go up. the labor force continues to shrink and the polls don't move, tony, why not? >> well, the polls actually continue to go down for president obama, but the real conversation here is about fantasy versus reality. and you can talk about the 160,000 jobs, but you have to talk about the record number of people on disability. you have to talk about the record number of people on food stamps, a way for people to get by in this economy and-- >> there are the jobs numbers, and how will they move the polls? because they haven't-- >> 8.3 is 8.3, people don't

have a job. >> it's about messaging and why the polls haven't moved much for obama, he's steady especially with the rates going up. the spin machine is out there. >> and romney does not? >> you have the labor second hilda solis saying we've turned the corner. unfortunately we have great policy, but romney needs to get out there and plain talk to the common guy. he's not doing it as well, but as for going into the convention, the job numbers are only a good catalyst to help solidify the base behind romney and we need to get the base out to vote for him and this is the best growth period we've had since 1989. for 30 consecutive months we have grown our jobs. >> and they're growing at 1.5%, anemic. >> job growth period since 199. >> if you look at the minority

communities with 8.3% nationally, that doesn't even measure up to the latino unemployment. the back unemployment. amongst women. so, even job creation as you say, how you're spinning it, the bottom line, people are suffering and when they go to the ballot box they're going to vote their pocket books. romney released a five-point plan and he needs to get out there advocacy, advocacy, advocacy. >> dave: and tony let me ask you about the wall street journal, unemployment at 8.7%, well above the national average, and 24 states where romney leads, the unemployment is 7.6%, and well below. and his advantage is the economy, why is romney leading in states where they're doing well, and obama leading in states where they're doing poorly? >> if we now want to shake our magic eight ball and answer that question, somebody please get me a magic eight ball. the real answer going back to angela's point.

i somewhat disagree on both their points is the reality of people's voting will come to how much money they have in the front left pocket and whether or not they have a job. >> wallet-- >> when we talk about messages, the message is simple. why does it break down. it's an interesting poll and deserves attention, but the overall on november 6th, regardless what happens at the conventions is going to be that exact moment. how much money in the pocket, do you have? >> and go ahead. >> the reality is that mitt romney has shown a key-- it's about messaging. mitt romney can't relate to the average american, middle class worker and can't release his own tax return. >> and the tax returns has nothing to do with the fact that obama's policies has failed america. >> with sustainable growth the past months and-- >> and as for romney, i think he does need to get out there and the republican party needs to get out there more and do more advocacy. in the states where obama is

doing better and the states are not doing so well dealing with unemployment. it's about messaging, the race baiting, the class warfare, all of that is resonating and the republicans need to get out there and give their message. >> dave: when we have a chart to show you since it's gone since 2009. it begs the question that ang will keeps presenting here, tony, isn't it about messaging. he presented an economic plan the past week, fairly simplistic when you break it down, but it's not -- people aren't getting it, not conveyed right and not moving the needle. >> i don't accept that mathematics, but the message is do you have a job? how much is a gallon of milk, how much a gallon of gas and how much does it cost to put food on the table for your kids and that's the-- >> i agree with that and they are going to vote their pocket books, but people still need to get out there. >> let's take a timeout and we'll pick this up again after the break and our panel is sticking around and next, we'll discuss this, even with the president's john f.

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>> as you may have heard, president obama wants to raise taxes, but even the late president jfk said tax cuts are the best way to help the economy. >> the tax cut, i think that's most important, that would be 11 billion dollar tax cut in the period of 18 months, we're not doing this just because

maybe likes-- but the major lift to the economy to ensure against a a.... >> and you ran for congress in arizona, what changed since that day. >> nothing has changed. actually taxes have gone down through the middle class since obama has been in office and he's going to continue to do that. the difference is, republicans are running on lowering taxes, but the reality that they want to lower taxes for just the wealthy and they want to put the burden on the middle class. under obama's class, middle class's taxes will go down-- >> and tax cuts for all levels not just for wealthy and-- >> and also what they want to do the house just passed a bill, the republican house just passed a bill. they want to keep the marriage penalty tax relief the same, keep the $1,000 per child tax credit the same and extend tax cuts for all people. republicans don't want to raise taxes, actually they want to cut taxes more. >> dave: why will that help that the economy, angela?

>> because when you cut taxes and people have more money in their pockets, they know what's best to do with their money and put it back into the economy. when you have failed policies and increased spending and policies failed now, not created more jobs, then-- >> tony, have the bush tax cuts created more jobs? >> 8.3 unemployment. 8.3 unemployment. >> and jobs added-- >> i'm four minutes away from pulling out a cigar and watching the show. >> dave: go. >> back to the wall street journal poll you brought up earlier. whether it's a question of people like one or like the other and that's the way it goes. that's not the way it goes, that's the way they answer in the poll, not the way they answer in the polling place, they will vote with how much money they have and we can put a spin as big as you want now on the jobs numbers being up, they're not up. when you've got millions of people who have given up. more people than ever on disability, i refuse to let

those numbers go and allow the narrative to be changed when reality states and dictates that people don't have a job, can't get a job and there is no certainly economic model-- >> the only proven way that we can increase prosperity and reduce poverty is less taxes, less government, a free market, capital-- >> for the wealthy? because that's what-- >> small businesses owner, if you raise taxes, the tax hikes that obama wants to do, coupled with obamacare-- >> 3,000 and-- >> and somebody grab that-- >> first of all, af got to right here. and the average family is paying the tax, i want the tax rate of-- >> and and that's the-- >> and all right, we're going to leave it there, you guys can continue after break and go grab a cigar.

(laughter) thank you for being here. >> the answer to a happy marriage, fighting. you guys should be happily married. and an unusual encounter at sea and making friends with dolphins. plus, rick literally seeing double this morning, live at the annual twins day festival. we'll check in with mr. reichmuth ahead. ♪

♪ >> welcome back, your shot of the morning, that's a kira, a black lab that likes to swim with dolphins in mozambique. that sounds like an expensive hobby. >> alisyn: for the dog. >> clayton: scuba diving. >> dave: shooting the video underwater. >> clayton: you can get a case for your iphone. >> dave: those are the dolphinses. >> clayton: down in sea world. >> dave: i did swim one time happened out of the blue in australia, and byron bay and, that's right. >> clayton: swimming in the morning like cramer in the hudson river.

>> dave: no wet suit though. >> alisyn: we never miss a seinfeld reference. >> clayton: yeah. >> alisyn: let's talk key to a happy marriage, it may be different than you think, if you believe the researchers at university of tennessee. they've come up with what they think is more effective in a marriage than for giving and forgetting. >> clayton: and it looks like a lot like an episode of "everybody loves raymond." here is a hint. take a look. >> how about the way you squeeze? >> what's wrong with the way i squeeze. >> you don't sneeze, you stop it. and you could blow out your eye that way. >> dave: i'm with you, i hate that. let it out, baby, let it flow. and i think what you're talking about, when you bottle up emotion and you don't let it out, then that's when things turn bad when you're open and honest and express your frustration. being angry and fighting is

the tip number one and if dave is leaving the be cabinets open, just yell at him, tell him just close it and yell at him then. >> and they say that the point of getting angry and it's so effective. it sends a mes spouse that's more memorable than one if you just stifle it or forgive them. if you get angry, it curbs the behavi behavior. >> clayton: instead of it letting it festering, my wife says i would try to kill you with kindness and that doesn't work and the other day, i'm just clueless and guys, like a brick upside the head and she knows how to yell at me about doing something and now i'm thinking about it and i'm going to do it on a regular basis. >> i think there's a line that you cross, you need to be open and honest and once it's too heated. you know, i speak from experience, and because, that's when we get to-- have heated, but honest

conversations. >>ed heated, but not mean. >> you can't be mean spirited. and we've learned from other talking points. women like to feel understood, but not impossible to figure out. >> dave: like when we read your mind, we don't do that well. >> alisyn: you don't, you really don't. the effectiveness of forgiveness, the partners' level of agreeableness. how to go for anger or forgiveness, is your partner agreeable. >> clayton: back in the dave, i used to fight back, but it's a losing battle and now my first tactic, i don't know that it works is to say i'm sorry, aim going to fix it. >> dave: wow. >> alisyn: there you go, brilliant. >> dave: you are obedient. >> i am and you missed it, an

and i apologized and i'm going to fix it. and she continues to go on. >> alisyn: and satisfies when there's a fight, we want more. and i asked people for their tips, and what are the tips in the marriage and solves arguments, forgiveness or anger and somebody wrote in, a tickle fight. (laughter) thank you for that. >> that works with my two-year-old son. >> dave: let us know what you think about this, at ff weekend on twitter and try when she's mad at me, a tickle fight. >> alisyn: and those are your headlines everyone, tell you what happens in the news, including a tragic story, a seven-year-old girl was killed by a pickup at a texas mall. 84-year-old driver hit four children and two adults and his family says i may have gone into diabetic shock losing control and the other

victims are expected to be okay and the driver. and you've heard cutting costs at schools. highland park district will be turning over three schools to a private for-profit charter school company in order to avoid financial collapse and right now the district is 15 million dollars in the red. the charter group will handle staffing and curriculum. take a look at this security video, a massachusetts store owner fights off a couple of robbers, two men walked into the store and one immediately pulls out a gun and hops the counter while the owner wrestles with them. and the two men did get away with a couple hundred dollars and police hope the surveillance video will help them track down the suspects. >> clayton: wow. >> alisyn: wow, that is terrifying. all right. if you know anything about this please call your local authority and those are your headlines. >> dave: let's talk sports now. the olympics, a big day in

tennis, and serena williams did the happy dance and beat maria sharapova. 6-love 6-1 in the women's singles and proudly displaying her gold medal golden slam. and won all tournaments and the olympic gold. >> did you have that at dennies, the golden slam. >> dave: more amazing the first player to accomplish the feat in singles and double, she won with sister venus of course. what's success without the dance that clayton mentioned. >> clayton: there it is. >> dave: and she busted out the walk after the match and some were not so happy with that celebration thought it went too far and mother nature showed up to honor serena, serena watched the american flag blow away, during the ceremony and the wind blue the american flag right off the display and the crowd could

not believe it. it went into the crowd. and talking about unbreakable will. south africa's oscar is a double amputee and made it not only to the london games, but finished second in his 400 meter qualifying race and the 25-year-old had to go through dozens of hearings to convince officials his prosthetics did not give him an unfair advantage and got a chance making the most of it. some are very unhappy with this as well. not just with serena's dance and some feels it gives an unfair advantage. i say okay, let's give you two prosthetics, who would take that deal with an oscar was left with. >> clayton: and having to prove himself on this. your center of gravity, your balance would be thrown off as a double amputee, maybe a spring out of the steps, but maybe around curves. >> dave: out of the gate. if he wins a medal, then that

becomes a problem maybe. go to rick, we're talking twins. >> alisyn: usually on sunday mornings you're seeing double, but but. >> rick: for a reason. today it's because there are a bunch of twins around. >> alisyn: thank you. (laughter) >> all right, this time, we've got 13-year-old twins, mike and dan french. how long have you been coming to the festival? >> 13 years. >> rick: the entire time. >> yeah. >> rick: okay, you guys talk in, you know,son apparently. >> yeah. >> rick: who is older? >> i am. >> rick: and do you feel like you're an older brother. >> no, i-- and does he pick on you like an older brother. >> no. >> rick: not at all? all right, so, when you see your friends who are not twins and you know, you are a twin, do you ever think i'm envious, i wish i didn't have a twin or think it's the coolest thing ever. >> no. >> it's the coolest thing ever. >> rick: so there's about 2000 sets of twins that are here. do you now that you've been doing this for 13 years, do

you know them all. are you celebrities, since they've been watching you grow up. >> we started knowing a lot of names now that we're coming here and see everybody that we do know. >> rick: okay. and so, what's the best prank you've ever pulled on somebody. >> oh. >> rick: by switching identity. >> school, probably school homework. >> don't cheat on tests. >> no, nothing. >> rick: okay, all right. good answers with the camera rolling. >> yeah. >> rick: all right, have fun today. and and i'll talk with jim shemanski. >> a mouthful, i didn't get it until the fourth grade. >> rick: listen, you're the president of this event. what's going on today for people who are out here. >> this is the 37th annual twins day festival and what we have going on are -- this is a 5 k race that's going to be starting in a little bit of time and twins contests all afternoon long with different age groups, most alike and for the fraternals, the least

alike, because the fraternals come, too, and by the way, it's open to the public. some people think just twins come here, no, everybody can come. twins talent show and university hospitals are here and ohio state dentistry and they do research on twins. >> rick: interesting, i didn't realize that and you're raising main for a cause? >> melanoma, all sorts of different -- there's athletic boosters and medical kind of things, a lot of fund raising going on at the same time. a nonprofit organization. >> rick: great event and a lot more twins coming up,s 5 k. back to you. >> clayton: double those kids i don't know if i believe them. cameras rolling had to snuck into a test or something, come on. >> alisyn: and they said they did some tricking at school, but not cheating. >> clayton: and switch out eventually on a date. in their teenage yes,ar that

would be fun. >> alisyn: that's very brady bunch. and meanwhile, they serve and protect our nation, but now the obama campaign is suing it put other voters in the same class as our military members and our vets are upset about this. we'll talk to one live momentarily. >> clayton: if you thought the show toddlers and tiaras is the lowest that reality programming could possibly get, you're wrong. what does it mean when this girl gets her own reality show separately. >> alisyn: oh, boy. >> clayton: i'll be watching. ♪ it's something you're born with. and inspires the things you choose to do. you do what you do... because it matters. at hp we don't just believe in the power of technology.

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>> some military groups are up in arms over a lawsuit by the obama campaign and the dnc. and has to do with early voting in ohio and claims that the suit is protecting what they have as service members. >> dave: joining us with the group concerned veterans in america and iraq vet. and at issue here, early voting for military members, should they deserve voting rights that everyone in ohio

has? >> of course they get the same voting rights as everyone in ohio and leeway. that's all the law in ohio does, three extra days before the election to get the ballot in. think about a guy in afghanistan, on patrol. did i get my absentee ballot in, might be reminded about the election just before and ohio law gives he or she more flexibility to make sure the ballot is counted. the obama administration, the argument they're making is this differentiation is without justification and arbitrary. they're saying that it's arbitrary the military would be given three additional days and civilians should not we're just trying to make sure that the guys are able to vote and do their duty. >> alisyn: of course. and now, to be clear, the obama campaign says that they're not fighting to take away military service members' rights, they want all ohioans to have that same privilege. in other words, they want all ohioens to be able to vote the weekend and the monday before

that tuesday election day, so, why are veterans groups opposed to that? >> first of all, there's a creep here, long been in the law, differentiation between military and veterans service, ways that they're afforded opportunities that they're not. you could start a slippery slope. ohio you can request a ballot 35 days before any election and vote in person up to the friday before and on election day, what you're trying to say if you're in the military we'll give you additional weekend to vote. you have earned this special consideration because you might have some special circumstances you might say, no one's shooting at the civilians going to the polls in ohio. if you can show up on election day, show up on election day or all the way up to the friday before. the differentiation, it really is something in our law for quite some time the way that we get paid overseas tax-free dollars and military gets

special circumstances and that's all we're trying to defend here. >> dave: you're saying that ohio already has rhea relaxed system when they can vote. >> yeah. >> dave: plenty of ample opportunities. and joe biden tweets, ohioens shouldn't have to endure shapeful adults to restrict their voting rights. how do you feel about that? >> it's so shamefully political what they're doing, that statement is shameful. ohio, why pick ohio and why military voters? why try to draw that distinction? they know, they want to pack more people into the polls over the weekend and know that military voters traditionally speaking vote more often for republicans, but it's a political play and all we're saying, hey, ohio made a law because they believe in supporting our military and their attorney general and secretary of state for that. this isn't politics, it's about giving more opportunities to veterans and

passes the common sense test. >> alisyn: well, we appreciate your service and explaining all of this stuff. >> dave: good to see you. >> thanks. >> dave: as michael phelps scores another gold medal. congress is working together for once to make sure he doesn't pay a price for his success, we'll explain. >> alisyn: she was hard to forgot on toddlers and tiaras. >> i like this because ♪ i want to win money . >> what's happening there. >> i don't know. >> alisyn: well, now honey-boo-boo has his own show, much to clayton's delight. is this a new low for our culture? we'll debate it. and i though, it's just too hard." then there was a moment. when i decided to find a way to keep going. go for olympic gold and go to college too. [ male announcer ] every day we help students earn

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favorite segment of the morning. >> alisyn: get that out there right now. >> clayton: wake up grandma for this one. you remember this colorful tot from t.l.c.'s series, toddler and tiaras. >> 'cause ♪ i want to win money and that will make me honey-boo-boo. ♪ >> what's happening here? >> a half hour of that every weekday. >> alisyn: after a storm of controversy over that little girl's highly caffeinated special juice you heard her talking about, she's getting her own spin off show, clayton. >> clayton: about time. >> alisyn: is this crossing the line? a psychologist thinks so, he joins us now, james, nice to see you. >> great to see you. >> alisyn: is this a sign of the apocalypse?

>> well, to a degree, it is, and you used the word crossing the line. i mean, there used to be a line where we protected the innocence of children and this is a spin-off with toddlers and tiaras and it perpetuates the same values and it's exploittation of children, jeopardizes their mental well-being and jeopardizes basically their relationship with their parents, what they think of as parental love. i mean, we have three and four year olds on toddlers a tiaras, who are dressed up like basically the oldest profession, so it's shameful. there used to be a line of shame that would be crossed now they have a spin off show that perpetuates that. >> clayton: who is to blame here? obviously, that's a success and people are tuning in, what's the issue here, do we like to see a train wreck happening or are the media companies to blame for decide to go put this thing out there because they know that people are going to watch it?

well, it's a reflection of society that there's a demand for this, but there's always been a demand for things that perhaps are edifying and there used to be institution al media companies and this particular show, not only does it have the children, but parents to engage in what is parental misconduct. there are legal issues here. when you watch the shows, you wonder why child protective services aren't coming out. so, it's a bad reflection on society and it's a bad reflection on the institutional media culture as well. >> alisyn: you talk about the ethical issues. she was just talking in there about her special juice. by the way, her special juice is a concoction of red bull and mountain dew.

highly calf-- dave briggs is now distraught. that's what he drinks before this show and so, this is a little girl with the highly caffeinated drinks and does t.l.c. bear some responsibilities for some of these stunts? >> well, they absolutely do. we live in a society-- what would mayor bloomberg think about go-go juice? he wants to ban sugary drinks and this has high caffeine. it's unhealthy for the child. the child is incident and the child doesn't know the network says, hey, look, we're sort there have as voyeurs, and we have cameras. according to the series, we'll see the family doing what they do best, four-wheeling through mud pits and road kill for the family cookouts, what they're saying about the shows. >> i understand. look the reality show culture is bad enough. when you think of the viewers,

until many of them are young children, not only now are they subjected to role models like kim kardashian and snooki, but now it's the power, the influence of their own peers engaging in very questionable behavior, abberant behavior, many times, that has power over these kids. and so, i would think, you know, the cable industry, the television industry, has a long tradition of self-policing. >> right. >> this may be a time for the network to consider that. >> alisyn: to exercise that. and dan, you're a media psychologist, thanks for coming in and talking about all of this. >> it's my pleasure, thanks for having me. >> alisyn: all right. >> clayton: when did this show air? >> more "fox & friends" in just two minutes. >> clayton: the dvr. wake up!

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call or go online now. [♪...] >> good morning, everyone, it's sunday, august 5th, i'm alisyn camerota, what's happening at this hour. forcing hundreds to flee their home and it's far from over at this hour and what's happening in order to put out the flames. >> and two top lawmakers being thrust into the vp spotlight. new calls for senator marco rubio and congressman paul ryan to join mitt romney on the ticket. >> and michael phelps grabbing gold in his olympic swan song. now there's a new push from congress to make sure that he

and his teammates don't have to pay taxes on their gold medals. "fox & friends" hour three starts right now. ♪ >> good morning, everybody. thanks so much for joining us, only 93 days left until the presidential election, in case you're keeping track at home and this week, the veep stakes is heating up. it could happen as early as this week that we find out who mitt romney picks. >> clayton: and people at home don't know the lingo here a could -- on us, and i don't know in he wants any of it, the weekly standard, you remember bill kristol is the one who gave john mccain advice picking sarah palin and he has new advice this morning. >> dave: yeah, says go bold,

go for the gold, mitt, marco rubio or paul ryan. >> the republican party intellectual leader, the man who laid out the core of the post obama policy agenda and got his colleagues in congress to sign onto it or marco rubio, gifted young politician, the man who embodies what is best about the tea party and broad-based republican governing majority of the future. i think there are two schools of thought on this coming out of the romney campaign the of the either bold with one of those two or safe, with somebody like tim pawlenty or portman. and the chief for politico says do it now and change the conversation. >> alisyn: obviously, both of them, both of the suggestions from the weekly standards both have advantagings and disadvantages. with hispanics, mark could he rubio they believe would help shore up the support and he needs that support, they argue that he will lose, that mitt

romney would lose to president obama without hispanics, without the hispanic vote. president obama currently has a 53-27% advantage over romney, and between hispanics polled. >> clayton: and you know jeb bush in florida says he needs diversity, he he cannot make this the party of the old white guy and jeb bush said that a number of times, referring we need tomorrow diversity in the republican party and pointing right to mark could he rubio and helping florida although bobby jindal, governor of louisiana once a darling for the vice-presidential sweepstakes has a different take, thinks it should be paul ryan, take a listen. >> and paul ryan would send a very powerful message that this administration was serious about tackling medicare reform, entitlement reform, shrinking the size of government and doing so in a courageous way. >> and stats like in sports, the trade deadline here. >> dave: yeah. >> clayton: you have a trade deadline and trade one for one

on on the left mark could he rubio, 41 years old down there in florida, former speaker of the florida house, dubbed the tea party crown prince the son of cuban immigrants. >> dave: some say he doesn't have the experience, look, eight years in the florida house, two years as speaker of the florida house, and of course, years as senator, impossible for democrats to make the argument that he's he experienced to be vp. >> alisyn: they're both young men and up and comers, rising stars, in the republican party and paul ryan would shore up mitt romney's fiscal conservative credentials. >> he would show a bold fiscal plan, i don't know that romney has laid out yet. when will he do it. a bus tour that romney has, august 10th and 13th, ending in florida and a lot of speculation that's when they'll roll out the vp pick. how are they doing it, by an app. the mitt romney vp app. >> clayton: i was looking at the numbers on the download

apps for president obama's and mitt romney. and barack obama, 100 and mitt romney's 14. if you're going head to head on apps, mitt romney would be crushing president obama in app down loads. >> and via app, it's text, texts in 2008. and let's get to your headlines and tell you what's happening. three al-qaeda leaders were killed by n.a.t.o. air strikes in afghanistan. officials say one air strike killed an explosives expert and his deputy and a second strike killed a leader who ran insurgent training camps and n.a.t.o. forces have been hunting down taliban and al-qaeda leaders, hoping to weaken it before americans withdraw in 2014. and jared loughner is set to plead guilty on tuesday, accused of going on a shooting rampage in arizona and six

people killed and 13 injured. including gabrielle giffords, who was shot in the head. and 23-year-old loughner was sane when he opened fire and now understands what he did and the charges that he faces. and a possible plea deal would send him to prison for the rest of his life. and several wildfires continue to burn across parts of oklahoma forcing more people from their homes, and oklahoma's highway patrol officers going door-to-door overnight and making sure that people are getting out in time and people in a down have been returning home and nothing, but this aftermath, nothing, but ashes remain. and investigators say it's possible the fire was set on purpose after reports of someone throwing burning newspapers from a pickup truck. truck. >> we didn't go full on blitz getting everything out. and i didn't know it was going to get here. >> alisyn: and five dozen homes were completely destroyed. and an atheist group wants the

city in rhode island to take down this 91-year-old memorial honoring veterans from world war i. the mayor says he's not giving in to their demands without a fight. >> and this has here on the united states soil, we move no matter what. >> alisyn: residents have raised nearly $19,000 to aid their city in taking on the atheist group in court. >> clayton: and meanwhile, one the greatest names whatsoever. argue with me on twitter, if you can. there's one in west virginia, frog bottom. >> dave: i think we've got one. twinsburg, ohio, that's where we find rick reichmuth for the twins day festival. hey, rick. >> rick: hey, guys, 37th annual twins festival and pull

out and take a look at this. have you ever seen this many twins in one place? i feel like i -- for some reason i feel like you guys could hurt me i'm 0 someplace i'm not supposed to be. all right. and there you go. let's talk about the weather real quick. there's a lot going on. take a look at the maps and you can see big storms, in fact, storms are going through here unfortunately, and probably in about an hour and a half or so, that he have got a 5 k run they want to get going and get that done and the rain will probably come after. you see the showers moving through oklahoma, that's good news, the fires in oklahoma city, it's going to bring a little relief, but not enough, unfortunately, it will bring some light showers, they need a lot of rain to certainly to help the drought and we'll take anything we can get. today severe weather moves across the ohio valley into the northeast throughout the day and to the northeast by tonight. but earlier in the day it will be 0 on the western side of that picture. get ready it could be a bit of a severe weather outbreak day today with significant storms

and we're talking about the tropics, tropical storm florence in the eastern atlantic and we're talking about ernesto, one that certainly is closer to us, it's going to be moving through the yucatan peninsula likely by wednesday and folks will be watching that. the bot torch the hou-- the bottom of the hour we'll be interviewing the twins. >> clayton: can we vote on who? i'm just kidding, don't do it, dave, don't do it. stop right there. >> rick: rick knows you well. >> clayton: we forward to it. let's talk about the olympics, and michael phelps continues to be the story of the games, 22 now olympic medals, adding to his all time olympic record. >> dave: 18 of them, folks, are gold and that's twice as many gold medals as anyone has ever won. >> clayton: and well, you know, you get paid $25,000

when you win a gold medal. you do the math on that. 18 gold medals, $25,000, the problem is, that per gold medal, you're paying nearly $9,000 in taxes. so, now, there's a bipartisan move in congress to try to stop them having to have to pay taxes on their medals they win for representing america. >> dave: and $175,000 in taxes on all of his medals. >> alisyn: of course, he has lots of endorsements and he's okay, but there are some olympians whose names we've just learned who have made us so proud on the international stage whose families are not that-- or who are individually not as financially well off and make it detriment. many poll tigs including mary bono mack say this should change. >> olympians are not there to win money, that's ridiculous, they're there to show they're the best in the world and perhaps more importantly, they're there to show that the united states is the best in the world. and you know, that's what this

is all about, very importantly, would be retroactive and this year's olympians would be covered. >> that's got to be good news for them. >> especially michael phelps. >> and shelly writes us, a lot of e-mails, i think it's unthinkable to tax olympics medals, and they sacrifice for years on end. >> gabby douglas, her family is in financial straits and facing foreclosure and it's certainly not chump change to have to give this amount of money to taxes. and garrett from ohio says i've served 20 years in the military and paid taxes and i was there for my countries too. i love olympics, but no one is exempt. and that's the other point. >> dave: some of these people are making millions of dollars. paying taxes on medals, is a kick in the face. the athletes represent the u.s. and pride to our nation and this is their thank you and you bring up things, look, nba players play over there and win gold medals, i think

they don't mind paying that tax bills, could you argue both ways, good to see bipartisan support for everything these days. >> clayton: the only thing they can agree on in the election year. the new numbers, unemployment rate jumped to 8.3%, with the lack of recovery for president obama come november, chris wallace will weigh in whether we're seeing a he recovery or not. >> alisyn: and a pair of brothers overcoming obstacles for triathlons. you won't want to miss their inspiring story. ♪

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>> joining us now to weigh in is the anchor of fox news sunday, chris wallace, great to see you. >> hey, guys. >> it's interesting, because no matter what the economy has done in recent months it hasn't moved the needle a whole lot in either direction and in fact, the wall street journal broke down the states and the states are doing well, is actually where obama is leading and to make a general statement. the states that are struggling, it doesn't bear out that the economy is it making a huge difference. will it in the next couple of months? >> it's interesting, if you take historical perspective, 8.3% unemployment. no president has been reelected with unemployment that high since fdr in 1936. the highest unemployment rate that any president's been reejected was ronald reagan 7 #.2%, a whole lot lower than where we are right now in 1984. so, by historical standards, this would be unprecedented in the last 80 years. on the other hand, i agree with you that you look at the numbers, they are certainly

bad. the economy not getting much better, and yet, barack obama is, by small margins, leading in the polls and by a little bit more in the swing states. so, have people discounted this? have the obama people been successful in saying, well, you may not like us, but you're going to like mitt romney even less? i think it puts an anchor on obama. you know, he's got a bad economic record and there's a certain limit as to how high he's going to go and that's one of the reasons i think you see the obama campaign in chicago doing so much to try to disqualify mitt romney in a lot of voters' minds. >> has the obama administration managed to paint mitt romney before mitt romney has been able to paint himself at this point? >> well, they're been pretty successful. first of all, a big money advantage, you know, there's primary money and general election money. you can't spend general election money and mitt romney has a lot more than president obama. and you didn't spend that to

win the nomination, so romney is sitting on tens of millions of dollars he can't spend until the end of august. right now obama has a big money advantage and outspending romney two or three to one over the last three months and, yeah, he's done a pretty successful job in the polls. in three key swing states, pennsylvania, ohio and florida, and what they found was that people are beginning to pick up lines from the mitt romney ads. romney cares more about profits than creating jobs. romney doesn't release his tax returns, so the obama attacks are sticking, beginning to resonate with voters and romney, it's not too late. romney chooses a running mate and conventions and campaign can turn that around, but he has taken some damage. >> dave: to your point though, mitt romney has a 25 million dollar cash on hand advantage combining that with the rnc, so that can be huge as we go ahead. >> alisyn: chris, let's talk about the success of ted cruz

in texas and what it means for the tea party's future. >> let me say we're going to be talking with david axlerod at master minds of the obama cane and also talking to ted cruz live onset and very interesting, this is a guy that i think most of us have never heard of. first time candidate in texas running for the senate republican and primary, against the sitting lt. govern governor. he was at 2% in the polls, and he ended up winning by 13 points on tuesday and it just shows that the tea party, the grass roots is still very powerful in the republican party. he ran, he said about the senate club, i want to go in and knock the door down on the club, steal the silverware and pull up the shades. he's taken up prisoners and very interesting to talk with him about what his victory in the primary, he hasn't won the

senate race yet, but what it says about the grass roots tea party movement you don't hear about. >> the article in the past couple of weeks, is the tea party dead. >> dave: certainly not, are they? >> your interview with ted certainly bears that out, that's not the case. >> no, it isn't. and you know, it's interesting, people are talking about him as the rising star, the great conservative hope. i'm interested to sit down, i've never met the man and it will be interesting and i suspect a lot of you haven't heard him talk at length. and interesting to meet him. >> alisyn: and chris, you're going to talk with david, alerod about mitt romney paying taxes stuff, the harry reid, puts up or shut up. what's the latest with that? >> well, and i will ask him about it. it's an interesting thing. it seems to be an utterly unsubstantiated and charge by

him that romney has not paid any taxes ten years, whether it's clean politics or dirty politics, we're talking about it. >> dave: we're used to this from a talk radio host, but not the senate majority leader. a very interesting with mr. cruz, don't know much about this guy. can't wait for it. >> altogether. >> alisyn: thanks, chris. >> you bet. >> clayton: coming up on the show, this isn't exactly what they were fishing for in alaska, take a look. [bear crying] >> does that sound like a human being? no, that's a baby bear screaming for its life in a whirlpool. and three fishermen saved its life. >> dave: bear, bear, i'm telling you. and this is fantastic, a bond between brothers that eclipses all obstacle even cerebral palsy and how racing together

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>> a very special story, now about a bond between brothers truly inspirational. six-year-old kaiden long has cerebral palsy and can't walk or talk, but thanks to his brother, they can swim and run, and they take part in try ott lon and they traveled to new york to be with us here today. it's incredible to have you guys here. and you just finished the triathlon yesterday.

your brother obviously can't walk or talk, and why did you, buddy, decide to do triathlons and help him do that. >> he can't walk and get out and he's always in the bedroom and i thought i would get out of house and do the try oiathlo with him and get him out. >> dave: how are you able to do a triathlon, and what do you do there? >> we have a trailer and a-- and when we get off the bike, we put a front wheel on it and run with it. >> dave: and you actually run with it. let's talk about the biking part. how do you do that. >> there's a piece and you connect it to the bike and it goes and the piece connects to the trailer and you bike with it. >> dave: and the swimming part. how do you do that together? >> i have a rope and attaches on to a raft. that he gets in, and it ties around my waist. >> dave: you're an inspiration. >> thank you.

>> dave: kaiden, i can't tell how excited he is, how do you know how happy it makes him and how he feels about this. >> well, he laughs and smiles, i'm sure that makes him happy. >> dave: how does it make you feel when you see how happy your brother is. >> makes me feel proud. >> dave: who helped you come up with the idea you saw your brother and knew there were certain things he couldn't do, where did you come up with the idea. >> we were looking through the magazine and i saw it and i thought it would be really cool that kaiden could get out. >> dave: now you've done eight. is that right. eight triathlons together. >> yes. >> dave: and hey, buddy, do you want to keep doing this as they grow up. how difficult is it to finish the triathlons, most of us adults couldn't finish them. >> sometimes it's hard, but i just keep going 'cause and when he smiles pushing me on. >> dave: and i'll bet it does.

it pushes everybody on. what do your parents think about what you're doing. >> really cool and awesome that i did this. >> dave: how about through the racing and running and biking and rafting with the swimming part of the race. >> and it's a lot in the swimming because it's the probably the most. >> dave: have a lot of people told you what an inspiration you are to them. do they write to you and tell you at the races, what kind of things do you hear. >> you're a true inspiration and being a hero. >> dave: thank you for being here and thank you, buddy, you guys are doing fantastic and did great here this morning. looking sharp, too, guys. >> looks sharper than me. >> love this kid. and kaiden and nine and six years old. thank you for being here, what and one mayor blocking raises for firefighters, but giving raises to a top stop.

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come to a halt. a bump in the the parking lot. look at that. >> we begin to raise the bar on the water skiing squirrel, folks. >> and a rodeo and now it's confirmed. >> clayton: we need to see if t we can get the goat to the plaza. the plaza is longer. >> alisyn: and we have a dog and-- >> get a goat on this. >> dave: and meanwhile, do you feel like you're seeing double this morning? rick reichmuth is because he's at the annual twins day festival in twinsburg, ohio. rick, we tried to vote on who you would have as a guest. >> clayton: i think we won. i think the men won. >> rick: i think you're right. >> alisyn: and just for the record, i wanted two old men. you didn't go in that

direction. >> clayton: what did you end up picking. >> rick: see what we can do for you, alisyn next time. both of these sets of twins, it's your first time ever at this festival and there's too many e-names, rachel melody, katie and stephanie. very difficult. so, tell me about why you're here. >> we're here, our mother wanted to take us when we were younger and decided to put it on our bucket list and this year able to do it and we're excited to be here. >> rick: now that your mom is the not involved, you decided to do it. >> yeah, we're old you have. >> rick: typical rebellious kids. what has it been like, seeing 2000 sets of twins. >> dave:. >> in heaven and totally in our element and twins understand us and know what it's like to be a twin is amazing. >> rick: how many times have you-- >> we're seeing double. are you townships the favor things about the weekend no

one asked if we're twins. >> right. >> rick: and what's the one most annoying question people ask you. >> are you all twins? (laughter) >> and we have our own twin language? >> what is the best pickup line anybody has used on you, oh, gosh, pickup line, what is it? >> oh, twins has always been my dream or whatever. >> rick: yeah, yeah, yeah. >> rick: certainly not where to go with that. and then what is the one thing about being a twin that nobody ever asks you, but you wish that people knew? >> that we have our own differences, like we're not totally identical. >> we have our own identities, yet, we're so much alike, but we are different. and people don't ask what your difference is, what's the same? >> and you guys are finishing each other sentences and as you're speaking you're mumbling the words. crazy. all right, so, the five k is getting going and you guys are going to run in this. >> yes. >> rick: good luck in the race and hopefully done in about 20

minutes and be back here at the end by the time we're on again. have fun. >> thank you. >> dave: thank you for asking them about the pickup line. >> alisyn: and dave sent you that question and of course, it was slately risque. >> clayton: important notes on the pickup line. >> dave: trerrific. >> clayton: let me put these on my blogs. >> alisyn: a pickup truck lost control at a texas mall and killed a little girl. and before crashing into two cars, one of the kids, a seven-year-old girl died and all the others are okay. and the condition of the driver is unknown. and the family says he may have gone into a diabetic shock and caused the crash. a mayor offering staffers top

pay raises and mayor nutter, restored salaries for 22 top staffers and cut their pay and his own in 2009 to decrease cutbacks to city services like libraries and pools and well, now, a state finance board will decide whether firefighters should also receive raises. a weekend fishing trip in al alas alaska, interrupted by a baby bear in distress. [bear crying] >> he sounds like he's saying bear. >> dave: i'm telling you. >> alisyn: three fishermen found the cub into a whirlpool and pushed the boat to shore and one speaking about the rescue. >> and it was amazing the poor guy was gassed. and when he gets up on shore and took every ounce of his energy to pull himself up on

the rocks and get into the woods. he looked back one more time and gave one more of those famous cries that you guys are playing there on the tape. but you know, you're talking about pretty tough guys and there wasn't a dry eye in the boat. >> alisyn: once on shore we're happy to report the bear was reunited with his mother. >> oh. >> alisyn: and meanwhile, death has done nothing to diminish the image of marilyn monroe. passed away 50 years ago today. and paying tribute to the blond bombshell. and told why this star is so iconic. >> she was very, very intelligent. she overcame a lot of disabilities as well as a really difficult childhood. she made herself into a star. she did a lot of it through her own cleverness and her own ability to be charismatic.

and last night in hollywood more than 200 look alikes, attended a pool party to commemorate the anniversary of her death. and nick jonas is supposed to be becoming the newest judge on american idol and the 19-year-old pop star confirmed it on twitter rumors are true i'm considered to be a judge on american idol, it would be a dream come true if it happened and hoping to bring a younger audience to the show. mariah carey already signed a 18 million dollar deal. >> dave: that's a fantastic pick, young jonas, but you need a jerk. >> i hope that jonas can be critical to be mean. >> alisyn: they need to find somebody like you, you'd be perfect. >> dave: i'd be perfect. and let's go outside to clayton who's got treats for us. >> clayton: yeah, we're outside cool things down with kona ice truck and equipped with more than 30 flavors over your shaved ice cone. and tell us about kona's

initiatives and tony lamp, nice to see you this morning. >> thank you very much. >> clayton: i'm from philadelphia, i'm use today italian water ice and never heard of kona ice. why did you decide to come up with this. >> we had an experience, i moved into a subdivision and we had a bad ice cream truck experience and my kids came running out to the curb and the ice cream truck wasn't what it used to be in my day. let's see if we can do this better. >> clayton: it's from hawaii shall the idea comes from hawaii. >> shave ice. >> clayton: it's not, there's no d. i'm reading through the notes. there's no d. >> it's d in the mainland, but not in hawaii. >> clayton: shave ice and retains the flavors and japanese explorers brought them to hawaii. and the top five flavors of shave ice. >> the first one tigers blood. they want to say the name and it's secretive what we put in the tigers blood. a strawberry coconut.

and blue raspberry number two and we also have, you guys actually-- >> i've got it dig out of it. multi-talented side of this. >> and that's what we're talking. >> clayton: now we're talking about. >> very cherry another one. groovy grape and wedding cake. here is the truck, explaining what's going on here, hi, guys. >> hi. >> these are our long island franchisees. >> clayton: instead of the typical old ice cream cup. you have the kona ice truck that people come up and order different ice. >> what we do a couple of fresh, just ice and come over to the flavor wave and get it. we'll get a cup of fresh shave ice. >> the nicest truck i've seen. and usually you see the trucks and they're falling apart. >> we've taken it up a notch and you come here and come to the flavor wave and whatever flavor, however much you want on there. there's the tiger's blood, you

have to try that. >> clayton: in honor of charlie sheen and i'm going to pi pina colada and that's what ali has and looks great on the air. >> that's fantastic. >> clayton: dog days of summer, what pa ba better way t do this. you see one coming to your town. i'll finish this up. >> alisyn: you're out there. but i do mind if you don't bring me a pina colada. >> clayton: see i knew she'd want that. >> dave: a navy seal force today resign because he spoke out against president obama's policies. he's now tackling a new mission, he's here to tell us about that coming up. >> alisyn: the highest honor in boy scouts and some of america's most famous icons and president gerald ford had achieved it, talking about the eagle scout award, celebrating a major milestone and we'll

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>> hey, welcome back, the destructive capeabilities of iran are increasing. the iranian military test fired a short range missile that upgrades the current ones and peter doocy, what are they calling it, the conqueror missile. the iranian defense minister did not mince word. the 110 and how much it improved their arsenal because the general is quoted by the associated press as saying the with the fourth generation of the fasta 110, the armed forces of our country are able

to target and destroy land and s sea, ahead quarters, radar and other points and retired army general told us tankers in the straits of hormuz are in of danger for the missiles accurate for miles and the show of face could be to scare off the israelis. >> they know that the israelis are thinking about military options and attack on nuclear capability. and they're trying to tell the community at large, if anyone attacks us, there's going to be a powerful and strong response and i think that's what the rhetoric is about concerning the missiles and advertising it so much and what the saber rattling is about. >> just hours after news broke of the iranian ballistic missile test, we've heard that the israelis are upgrading the missile shields with interceptor rockets and radar and here in the states, the

defense secretary leon panetta says we'll try to remain diplomatic, but depends how it goes with israel. >> should those efforts fail and iran make the decision to proceed that we have all options on the table, including military options, but our position is that military options ought to be the last resort, not the first resort. >> and these 110 missiles have been around since 2002, but, the big news now is that iran says they can travel with great accuracy, 60 miles further today than they did a decade ago and they can, theoretically, be outfitted with nuclear warheads, clayton. >> more accurate coming from iran, thanks, peter doocy, live for us in washington, thanks, peter. >> ali and dave. >> dave: he spokes out about president obama's policies and

a former navy seal. what he thinks we should do going forward. >> carl joins us now. >> how are you. >> alisyn: doing well. so you started writing this book and speaking out what you thought was wrong with the country and the president's direction and promote the book. is it any surprise that they said you can't be a u.s. navy seal while criticizing the president. >> it wasn't a real surprise, i knew that was going to reach some sort of objection from them, but i figured, the first amendment would prevail and unfortunately, i was wrong. >> alisyn: and listen, in the military, the first amendment sometimes is what you have to do as your duty. as all servicemen and women speaking out against their commander-in-chief, the system would break down. >> absolutely, in keeping the commander-in-chief should, should keep in highest standards of the constitution and he should fight for what is best for america and when he doesn't, i believe it is the military's duty to defend against all enemies foreign and domestic. >> dave: but now you're able

to say what you want to say and do it in this book. what were the things that you couldn't do that what went wrong. >> first and foremost, we need to bring our spending down, and that is a big problem and that's probably one of our greatest national security risks, our president is driving this country into a hole and me and people like me through this book are saying, hey, president obama, we will not let you destroy this country and we will defend it with any and all means necessary. >> alisyn: a lot of people are saying to bring down the spending, a battle cry, no pun intended, you hear all the time. was it worth leaving being a navy seal, an elite group, but it is part of the national discussion? >> like i said we put myself and my teammates and guys still do put their life on the line to defend these things and if we're risking our national security back at home, what are we fighting for? >> you have some tips what you

say the country needs to do to get back on track, one, worry, stop worrying about who is offended and worry about who is affected. who are we talking about here? >> in general, it's many morally wrong to call anybody out out anything, doing anything wrong. what we need to do we need to start thinking about, hey, long-term this is going to affect a lot more people if we offend a few people now, ie, the entitlement program, we can't afford it, that's going to put the country in a bad way. >> alisyn: put people ahead of politics, what do you mean by that? >> absolutely, we must think about how people are going be to be affected, instead of how the politics are going to work on capitol hill. one of our biggest problems. >> dave: do you have a future in politics. >> i hope so. >> dave: can you do more? >> yes, actually, i'm trying with the proceeds this have book, thinking of new ways to generate jobs with the proceeds that i make from it. >> alisyn: it sounds like you are interested in politics and

it sounds like that's the direction you think you can make more impact. >> absolutely, something i definitely want to go into later in life. >> alisyn: and also, put career before-- country before career, you think that too many politicians today are not doing it. >> absolutely, both sides of the aisle, they're putting their personal power and wealth in front of what the well-being is for we, the people. >> alisyn: carl higbie, on the home front. >> you can get it on amazon.com. >> dave: wildfires continue to burn in oklahoma after reducing dozens of homes to rubble and now the hunt is on for a possible arsonist. >> alisyn: plus the kennedy clan banned from their own home unless they pay up? why there's trouble in camelot. camelot. ♪ captioned by closed captioning services, inc.

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details straight ahead. >> dave: they serve and protect our nation and now the obama campaign is suing to put our military members in the same class as every other voter. do our servicemen and women deserve special treatment at the ballot box? we report, you decide. >> clayton: and spending off the rails, amtrak coming under scrutiny for wasting millions of dollars, because of a hamburger. or maybe, the hamburglar, we'll explain. how many puns can we work into one story? >> alisyn: many. >> clayton: "fox & friends," hour four, starts, right now. >> alisyn: delicious. >> clayton: and, that is working for you. >> dave: i appreciate it. tigers blood. >> clayton: ali got the pena colada. because we laced it. >> alisyn: good. >> clayton: spiked it. >> alisyn: all right, right to your headlines, a lot of news happening this hour, because, three al qaeda leaders were

killed by nato airstrikes in afghanistan, one killed and explosives expert and his deputy and a second strike killed a leader who ran insurgent training camps and, nato force have been hunting down taliban and al qaeda leaders hoping to weaken the network before american troops withdraw in 2014. the man accused of going on a shooting rampage in tucson, arizona, he killed 6 people an 13 others were injured, including gabrielle giffords, shot in the had. a potential plea deal would land jared loughner behind bars for life. crews continue to battle those wildfires. we have told you about, burning across parts of oklahoma, evacuations continue, today, and oklahoma highway patrol officers also went door-to-door making sure that people were getting out in time. people in the town of luther have been allowed to return

home, only to find everything burned to the ground. investigators say it is possible the fire was set on purpose after reports of someone throwing burning newspapers from their pickup truck. >> we don't go on a full on blitz of getting everything out, because we just... i didn't feel like, it was really going to get here. >> i'm praying... >> alisyn: five dozen homes were completely destroyed in luther. and, the kennedy clan famous lay, where they played football is off limits to relatives, unless they pay up cash, the main house of the canada compound was donated to the edward m. kennedy institute and now the nonprofit says the grounds are only to be used for educational seminars and for -- forums and if a family member wants to use the grounds, they have to pay the institute rent.

>> dave: rick reichmuth, is in ohio, this morning. what is going on there? do you have to be identical, to get the attention there, in twinsburg, ohio? >> rick: i think so. fraternal twins and multiples, a triplet or a quadruplet, but the i'd cals, call your attention and they ran the 5k and the fastest time, 16:40, just over five-minute mile. nuts. twins. look at the weather maps, guys, there is a lot of weather going on, including storms that are going to go through here at the festival today, you can see those storms coming through ohio, right now. some of these are going to become severe later on in the day but there is really beneficial rain, not heavy rain but any rain is beneficial, across areas of oklahoma, and the panhandle of texas, and into insurgent missouri right now and a runner just ran by and said,

it is humid, too, the case across the eastern seaboard, the humidity and as the day heats up will cause a lot of severe weather and we could be talking about a severe weather outbreak, a tornado or two, strong winds and possibly an event. and, two named tropical storms, florence in the eastern side of the picture, potentially a weather-maker of some sort, 10 or 11 days from now across the eastern seaboard and, ernesto, in the central caribbean area now, the official forecast, could be talking about impact on south texas. maybe by around next weekend. saturday, or so, so, plenty of time to watch it and, to get people aware, and, we'll continue to monitor that and here's your temps for the day today. a nice break for temps across areas of the south, a little bit of a break, i should say, 104 in dallas and yesterday, oklahoma city got to 113°.

and, that ties the all-time highest temperature, they've ever had, any day ever and it goes back to 1936, the heat going on there, a little bit of a break today. guys, back to you. >> dave: brutal, rick, tennis fan, venus and serena won the gold in the doubles and, double gold for serena, wanted to pass that on for you. >> rick: amazing. >> clayton: doubles. thank you, rick. let's talk about this, because of what is happening out in ohio. there has been back and forth and perhaps a misunderstanding, as to exactly what is going on with this early voting issue, in ohio. as it relates to military there. they are able to vote early. friday it starts and they are available to vote up to monday, ahead of tuesday and, the obama administration will allow all ohio residents to vote early, in accord dance with what the military is doing. >> alisyn: they say everybody should have the same special accommodation and members of the

military, six veterans groups, are not pleased with what the campaign is doing, and they think it is an outrage and they say, why should regular civilians and regular people get the special dispensation given to the military members and it is given to the military to make it more convenient for them and why should all civilians have the same benefit. here is a capta on our show talking about it. >> they know they want to pack more people in to the polls over the weekend and, military voters, vote more often for republicans, it is a political play and all we are saying is, hey, ohio made a law, because they believed in supporting our military and i applaud their attorney general and secretary of state for it and we'll defend that. it isn't about politics, it is about allowing ohio to give more opportunities to veterans, which just passes a common-sense test. >> dave: another point he brought up is this is ohio, not exactly a minor state. this is arguably the most important state in the election. and he thinks it is entirely

political and, the obama campaign is highlighting. >> alisyn: and there is some evidence of that, dave, because there are many other states, at least four other states, that also stopped the voting for regular civilians on that friday, before the tuesday of election day but, they are only suing ohio. not some of the other states, who do the same thing. >> dave: reeks of politics. a question for you, folks, this morning. should the train serve subway -- let that sink in. >> clayton: the amtrak train. >> dave: why do we say that? amtrak is scarfing down taxpayer dollars, $80 million a year when it comes to food and beverages. >> clayton: amtrak lost $800 million in ten years on the food services. think about this. if you ran a restaurant that had this kind of a loss within the first year you would close your doors, right? amtrak keeps chugging along. >> dave: on your dime. >> clayton: on your dime and all of the money lost and

representative john mica, when everybody else is on vacation, in congress, he decided to stick it out, and went to mcdonald's and grabbed a hamburger and there and pick up a $1.50 hamburger and the one you pay on the amtrak train is ridiculous. >> ten years, food service, everybody time somebody has a hamburger on the amtrak train it costs the taxpayer $6.65 and a drink for $2, cost the taxpayers, $1.40. these people, make a profit, something wrong in washington... >> alisyn: not a winning business model and the irony is, there is not lack of demand from consumers. that cafe car is like 12 people deep, when i show up there, it is -- you are waiting in line for 10 minutes, to get your hands on the food. and they think, the reason that $80 million a year is lost, is

because of waste. and, theft. employee theft, because nobody was watching the till and, employees were pocketing it and lack of oversight... >> clayton: money or -- >> alisyn: and they were supposed to oversee it and each thought the other one was doing is. >> clayton: are they stealing the money or burgers? have you seen the burgers, they are in a plastic bag first and put them in a microwave to heat them up. >> dave: and, the routes with the most cash on were missing the most money. and, labor, add 60% to every food and beverage. >> clayton: let's talk about the olympics. dave is updating you with the medal count, but, now the medal may be just the beginning for some of these athletes, because when they win a gold medal, silver or bronze there is a giant tax bill associated with winning the meadeles. >> dave: how much? 9 grand for every gold medal, an olympic athlete from the u.s. earns, 5300 for silver and 3500 for a bronze and we use michael

phelps, just for an example, he would have paid $175,000 tax bill on all of his medals. it's not for him, that the legislation is being proposed. to strip the tax. it is for all the athletes you never heard of and will never see on a wheatie's box, they come home and have to fork over the tax bill and don't have it and some finance their own trips and training and it puts them in a hole. >> alisyn: and we learn how much the families sacrifice financially for them to go to the olympics and some of sthem and some are facing foreclosure and, that is the highest tax bracket, michael phelps is in but, they are still hefty and, congress meaning, like mary bono mack has this to say. >> they are there to show the

united states is the best in the world and that is what this is all about and very importantly, it would be retroactive, and this year's olympians would be covered. >> that would be good for them. >> especially michael phelps. >> clayton: and veterans say, i served my country a number of years and the military and i had to pay taxes and i put my life on the line, so, is there a double standard? i don't know. but, there is a bipartisan move in congress to get the -- keep the money they win from their medals. >> dave: we should mention you win 25 grand for a gold and 15 grand for a silver and 10 grand for a bronze and you are not in the hole, but there is rare bipartisan agreement on this. >> alisyn: let us know what you think, whether or not they should pay tax on the big wins and the president says we need to start from the bottom up to grow the economy. >> president barack obama: every time we grow, it has not been by the top down. it has been from middle-out. it has been from the bottom-up. >> alisyn: is that accurate?

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♪ >> alisyn: president obama is acknowledging that americans are frustrated with the slow pace of our recovery but says the key to recovery is growing the economy from the bottom up. >> president barack obama: nobody is satisfied with our pace of growth.

nobody is satisfied, even with all the jobs we have created, we have to create more. but if you look at our history, if you look at the facts, every time we have grown, it hasn't been by the top-down, it has been from the middle-out. it has been from the bottom up. >> clayton: is the president right? joining us from nashville is former economic advisor to president reagan, art laffer. how are you this morning. >> good to see you, how are you? >> clayton: the reason we love having you on the show, you are a fair-minded guy and you voted democrat sometimes and also republican and you are not just in the tank for one party or the other -- >> not at all. >> clayton: when you hear the parties going back and forth on how we have grown the economy and you were there during the reagan years. how do we grow the economy? from the top-down, the middle-out? the bottom-out? make sense of it for us. >> it's not from the bottom up or the middle-up, either, literally you cannot love jobs and hate job creators. the people who employ middle

income and lower income people, are the people in the upper income categories, the companies and the jobs that are created. so, i think he is misdirected on that type of comment and of course you need middle growth and lower growth and that is where the bulk of the people and that is what you want to get but you need to have people being employed and that requires job creators. >> alisyn: and some of what you are talking about is the trickle-down theory, you give the job creators, wealthiest people more money or fewer taxes, it raises all ships. and, in the '90s, during the -- night can, yes. >> alisyn: in the '90s, during the big boon when president clinton was in office, wasn't it middle-out, the tech boon, the kids out of college could invent a web site and get wealthy from the middle-out. >> sure, but under clinton we had massive tax cuts and cut the capital gains tax rate from 28 to 20% and cut the tax on retired people, i mean, between

65 and 72 years old, clinton pushed nafta through congress. clinton did welfare reform and reappointed reagan's fed chairman twice and cut government spending as a share of gdp by more than the next four best presidents, combined. so, clinton is very much in the reagan light, he is very much in the kennedy light and very much in the coolidge light and is the opposite of barack obama and george w. bush the exact opposite of those two. >> clayton: i'm glad you brought up bill clinton, the argument the obama white house says, we need to let the bush tax cuts expire and we sill go back to the era at -- will go back to the era at which the clinton tax cuts were on the upper class and will be raised on the upper class and the obama administration points to that, do you disagree with their assessment of the clinton years as it relates to taxes? >> totally. i mean, totally. they raised the highest marginal income tax rate. that is true but they also cut the capital gains tax and cut government spending, a huge

amount. i mean, if you look at that number, it went down by 3.5 percentage points and the exact and sit of george w. bush and barack obama. and, then you got rid of the retirement tax on social security and, nafta, a clinton did a great job on the economy and yes. he did some things wrong and i was a fan for clintons and i voted for him twice and i'm still proud of it. >> alisyn: do you think simply keeping taxes where they are now and not raising taxes on even the wealthiest would help right the ship? >> it would help it. it will not do it. we have to cut government spending dramatically. we have to return to sound money and we have to have freer trade and less regulations and we have to appeal -- repeal obamacare and dodd-frank and there are lots of things we have to do. but, let me tell you, raising taxes, as these people are proposing, will not help the economy. it will hurt it. i have never heard of an economy being tacked into prosperity.

and, especially, when you are taxing the job creators, they are the ones that provide the jobs for all of the middle and lower income people. and, that is what we really need, is that machine started. >> clayton: art, we'll leave you on this, is it an opening for the tea party? we are going back and forth on the republicans and democrats, but let's be honest, neither party cut spending in 16 years in congress. >> i know. >> clayton: a pie in the sky, art? >> no, it's not pie in the sky. bill clinton cut government spending a lot and so did jack kennedy. they did great jobs on government spending. it's not just the new named tea party. you are also a kennedy democrat if you want to cut spending and also a clinton democrat if you want to cut government spending and the tea party has the name now but, you've got to get intending down. i never heard of a poor person spending himself into wealth. it is just -- it doesn't make any sense at all, clayton and that is what they are proposing doing. it doesn't... >> alisyn: art -- nice end. we'll end on that note, art laffer, thanks so much for your

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♪ >> alisyn: time for quick headlines, southwest airlines customers, not feeling the love after a facebook promotion called "love to like", promise mission half-price tickets to facebook fans, the airline actually charged customers multiple times. the company said it was a technical glitch.

and everyone will be given refunds. and, check this out: 138 sky divers linked up to set a new world record, for the largest vertical sky dive in illinois. it took 15 tries. over three days, to finally pull off the dive. vertical see you divers can reach speeds of up to 220 miles per hour, and people from all over the world took part. wow! >> dave: fantastic. sign me up! meanwhile, catholic groups are upset about the obama administration's contraception mandate. officially going into effect this week. they say it forces some businesses to violate their religious beliefs in order to avoid paying heavy fines. >> clayton: joining us now to break it down, fox news religion contributor, father jonathan morris. father, what do you make of this, now that the mandate is in effect. >> so much attention was given to this, about catholic organizations, and catholic bishops saying we will not do this, right and the result of this, 43 different lawsuits are going to the courts right now, different courts. but, what we are seeing now is something new.

and that is, it's not just the organization, there is not even primarily the organization. individual, private business owners have begun taking their cases to the court. and just last week, there was a decision by a district court in denver saying, you know what? actually we are not going to force this family to provide this service. that goes against our conscience. >> alisyn: you are referring to hercules industries. and, they seem like they've won and it should give other catholic institutions -- >> it was a preliminary injunction. >> alisyn: an injunction which should -- >> what it is pointing to is the primacy of the individual conscience, similar to a conscientious objection, of going into the military, that has always been protected in our constitution and what if we were to say for the good of the country you must go? right? that is going against a tremendous amount of history.

and, when we see individuals doing that, i see that the link is made, being made clearly. >> clayton: and, show this on the screen. here is what is at stake in all of this and what the mandate would cover, they'd face fines up to $100 per day per employee if businesses don't comply and, churches, houses of worship would be exempt and affiliated groups, hospitals and universities must comply, and their insurers must cover the cover of birth control, even fit is a catholic university. >> yes. and a principle not being talked about a lot, notice how it was imposed upon the american people, using moralistic terms, saying it is a right of a person, of an individual, to get this type of health care. and, therefore, because it is a right, therefore, there is an obligation, and we are talking about a moral obligation. that the country is saying, you must do. and, whenever there is -- what i

would consider distorted moral principles, the consequences are worse. why? because we are saying, now, that there is a country-wide mandate to do the right in the and this new right of birth control, the new right of these drugs must be respected by all using moralistic principles that are very heavy, very strong. >> dave: to your point, we don't hear a lot about it now. it is far from over. >> that's right, but it was implement august 1st, so this is where individual businesses are going to have to make decisions. >> dave: interesting stuff. >> alisyn: father john, great to see you, coming up on the show, is the american dream for sale? the new guidelines of president obama's immigration plan released and we will show you what it takes to become an american citizen these days. >> dave: and you want to have a happy marriage? try fighting. boy, love to hear father john's take on that. scientists say that that is the key. we'll have the research for you, ahead.

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ah-ah-ah -- sneet! you know how annoying that is, not to mention you can blow up your eye that way. >> clayton: that seems to be the best way to a happy marriage, the way "everybody loves raymond" -- remember the parents on that show, they fought all the time but it turns out they may have the happiest marriage of all because they fight so much according to a new bit of research out, to expresser an r anythi-- express your anger to have a long, happy marriage. >> alisyn: researchers at university of tennessee, expressing yourself in a fight, getting angry, not sweeping it under the rug leads to happier, more long term marriages. dave? >> dave: you have to have honest conversations i our expert. >> dave: i am an expert on the subject of... marital bliss. and, it may involve the occasional fight. i don't know, i'm torn on this.

i mean, i think discussions, maybe arguments, can be productive, but fights? rarely are productive. >> clayton: yes. and they say, though, that that leads to more understanding, you kind of get it out of the way, but -- >> dave: don't bottle it up. >> clayton: i think that is a good lesson. >> dave: that, a buy. >> clayton: but raises to the level of being mean. >> alisyn: it can, and that is fighting dirty and you shouldn't do that. but the point is, if you sleep things under the rug like your style, yes, honey, i agree with you, whatever you say, it doesn't change anybody's behavior. you have to get angry in order to change the behavior of whoever you want to change. >> clayton: i think you are right. if i come out an argue back it doesn't get us anywhere but if she gets fired up about something i'm more likely to put it in the mental, you know, filing cabinet. >> dave: really? >> clayton: and do it in the future. >> dave: we operate differently, my friend. >> clayton: now -- >> alisyn: the downside is...

>> clayton: you get fired up, dave walks away. >> dave: ali's point, i also fight dirty, sometimes. but, so does my lovely, wonderful, beautiful wife. >> alisyn: yes. ... and, after firing off choice words. >> clayton: and my wife, earlier when we did the segment, wrote me and she said, i heard that, so, probably will be an interesting afternoon in my house. >> alisyn: i bet it is. >> dave: yeah. >> alisyn: let's get to your headlines, tell you what is happening. look at the security video, i massachusetts store owner fights off a couple of robbers and the two men walked into the store and one immediately pulled out a gun and hopped on the counter while the owner wrestled with him the other suspect grabbed the cash. the men got away with several hundred bucks and police hope the surveillance video will help them track down the suspects, if you know anything about this call your local authorities. you have heard of companies, outsourcing jobs to cut cost, what about schools doing that same thing? the highland park school

district in michigan is doing that. the district will be turning over its three schools to a private for-profit charter school company in order to avoid financial collapse and now the district is $15 million in the red and the charter group will handle staffing and curriculum. clayton, please tell us about mars. >> clayton: i would love to, alisyn, because after nearly 8 months, nearly 350 million miles per hour, nasa's curiosity rover is getting set to land on mars this evening and will enter mars atmosphere traveling 13,000 miles per hour before touching on the surface and this is a graphical representation -- >> alisyn: is this live. >> clayton: no, that is a picture of wall-e and since there is a communications delay between earth and mars, this is interesting, scientists have to wait 7 minutes to see if it landed safely. they are calling it like 7 minutes of terror because they will not be able to communicate with it to find out if it has been successful. it will drop it and fly down and it will, like, drop it in a parachute --

>> that is even better and the fancy image. >> alisyn: the graphic. >> dave: now i get it! >> clayton: and it could go... or could be successful and we'll find out. it could be the future of the mars program because there is a manned program set to go to mars. and this is the first step in that direction. >> alisyn: and the future of television graphics, with sound effects, clayton is providing. and we thought this was -- >> this is my favorite story of the week, a truly inspiring one, you are looking at a 6-year-old and his 9-year-old brother, connor and, the boy has cerebral palsy and with the help of his older brother competes in triathalons, and, connor told us on "fox & friends" earlier, his brother's reactions make all the hard work worth it. >> how do you know how happy it makes him and how do you know how he feels about it. >> he laughs and smiles and i'm sure it makes him happy. >> dave: how does that make you feel when you see how hpy your

brother is. >> makes me feel proud i did something good i saw it in a magazine and i thought it would be good, if we got out and did it. and so we did it. >> the incredible brothers have done 8 triathalons together and including one yesterday and they brought a tear to my eye and i think in part, talking to them afterwards they were inspired by a man named dick hoyt, from the boston marathons, who ran 30 boston marathons with his son in a wheelchair, pushing him the whole way and awesome to see a nine-year-old, though, that is inspiring. >> clayton: it really is inspiring and let's check in with rick reichmuth, who is out at the twinsburg, ohio, twins festival. rick reichmuth there is and has been there all morning long, seeing double. hey, rick. >> rick: hey, guys, it just started to rain and this entire group is staying because they are dedicated to being twins, i had to make my eyes work and found the first set of fraternal twins, and, you are fraternal,

not identical. is it cool you are twins but don't have to look-alike. >> yeah. >> rick: the farthest away i found is australia, wave your flag! [cheers and applause]. >> rick: and his twin is not here, he drank too much last night and he's still in bed and didn't get to come out and enjoy this, one of you won the race. >> i did. >> rick: you didn't wait for your brother. >> no. >> rick: so is one of you a superior athlete than the other. >> yes, i guess he is, i don't know. >> rick: wow that was generous of you to admit. you guys have been coming to this for 25 years. >> yes, we have. it is wonderful. >> rick: and u there is a royal court here. >> every year they select kings and queens in the royal court, quite a great honor and we were the kings in 1992. >> rick: and you will keep coming forever. >> always. >> rick: and these women, 24 years, you met them 24 years ago and you have been coming for 24 years.

>> yes. >> rick: every year, is it like your favorite event. >> absolutely! >> this is our life. >> what we -- what twins is about. >> rick: i put out on twitter, asking for question, for twins, and, somebody said, what is the one thing, as a apparently, if you have twins, that you should know about raising twins? >> sell one. no! >> i would say, just let them be individuals as well as let them enjoy the special bond. this weekend we all come together to be normal. and, it is just really a fantastic experience. for a set of twins to realize, it is something very special and god created you to be together but also to be an individual as well. >> and you also -- we are the 2004 queens. >> rick: okay. so you guys were saying, normally, you feel like people look at you when you are out someplace. and you come to something like this, and, now, you guys are the normal ones and, i am the -- >> you are not! >> rick: i have to tell you, i feel like it. i really do. all right, it is starting to rain and we'll let you guys find

shelter. thank you, everybody, for being here, this morning [cheers and applause]. >> rick: thanks, back to you. >> dave: why is you being the outcast anything unusual for this program? >> rick: pretty much par for the course here! >> dave: thanks, buddy. >> alisyn: that is great and, a fun festival. >> 4, 3, 2, 1... >> dave: what are they counting down? [cheers and applause]. >> dave: the wave? okay. well done, i'm glad we hung on for that. >> clayton: hang on for this. we have more coming up, is the american dream for sale? the new guidelines president obama's immigration plan released, and we'll show you what it takes to now become an american citizen. >> alisyn: and do you want a body like an olympian? no, thank you! just kidding. we will see moves that we all need to achieve those great arms and legs, and back side. ♪

>> alisyn: quick headlines... a reporter in taiwan becomes the news, after the street behind her collapses. she was reporting about a man who died after falling into a sinkhole, when a second one opened right next to her, sending her running for her life. a british woman said her match maker was looking for love in all the wrong places and wants a refund, mary davis is suing valenti, international for $78,000 and she was set up with four men and all but one lived in a different country. that is undesirable. let's go over to the guys. >> dave: no, producers i will not do a live shot in front of a sinkhole. i will not do it! >> clayton: dave, can you go to the sinkhole? this story... can the american dream be bought for $465, part

of the immigration guidelines under the obama administration. >> dave: joining us is kansas secretary of state chris kovath, good to see you, sir. >> good morning. >> dave: $465 buys you a two-year work permit in the u.s. and you say it breaks federal law, why. >> congress passed a law in 1996 that says federal agents if they encounter illegal aliens must put them in deportation proceedings -- must and the current obama administration says we will ignore the federal law and we will give them a benefit instead, as you said, a work visa, to stay legally in the the united states and work here. and, it is basically ordering federal agents to break the law, because, their political superiors want them to. >> clayton: so basically, prosecution can pick and choose, the obama administration saying it is prosecutorial discretion, whatever that means. break that down for us.

>> well, and i'm glad you asked. because prosecutorial discretion is when a prosecutor is looking at punishing one individual, and is deciding whether or not to go forward with a case. this is not a prosecutorial discretion, this is 1.4 million individuals enmasse being treated as one, and, they are being given a benefit. it is not a question of whether to punish or not, it is giving them the benefit of lawful presence which they don't have now and give them a work visa and, one other point here, why in the world are we talking about giving out 1.4 million work visas to illegal aliens when we have over 15 million americans looking for work, right now? >> dave: we also learned a bit about some of the disqualifications. and when we first heard about the program, a lot of people were relieved to hear no one with a criminal record would get through the program and now, we have found out things such as, applicants will be disqualified for drunk driving but not for driving without a license. what do you think about some of these particular disqualifiers? and some people who will continue through the system?

>> i think they are window dressing because if you look at what is happening in practice down in el paso you can see how it will work. basically you will be disqualified if you have been convicted of one of these offenses but two-and-a-half weeks ago, ice agents innel cass poe gained custody -- el paso, arrest aid man for assaulting a family member and he came into ice custody he assaulted the ice officers and tried to run away and he was committing two more federal crimes, you know, resisting arrest and when they finally got the guy, the political superiors, politically appointed superior said, let him go, he's a dreamer he is under 30 and went to school here and he wasn't convicted of any of those crimes and is not your model future u.s. citizen yet is getting the benefit of the amnesty the obama administration is pushing. >> clayton: what you know what the left says, congress has been dragging their feet on the dream act, it has been stalled out and we had to do something about it

and we have people basically in legislative limbo and have been here a number of years, no fault of their own and gone to school and, perhaps, served in the military, we had to do something. what do you say? >> well, i think the "served in the military" part is something they throw in there that will have no practical effect. it is very unlikely that we will find any individual in this classification, who served in the military. but, what i say about congress, you know, holding people in limbo, no, they are not in limbo, they are unlawfully present and, they have to leave and congress has the prerogative to do nothing, it is their decision to decide to pass a law like this or not and, congress decided not to pass the dream act and now the executive act says, we don't care if it is congress's prerogative, we'll go around congress and the constitution and that is another reason why this is so troubling. what the administration is doing. >> dave: and, also interesting it takes us two years ich basically takes you by the

election and we are having this fight all over again. so, it is interesting, the politics behind this. good to see you this morning, kris kobath, the secretary of state in kansas. >> my pleasure, abs like michael phelps. >> dave: yes. i do. >> clayton: legs like hope solo? i do. and we will see how to score gold when it comes to your workout. ♪ happy birthday! thank you, nana send money to anyone's checking account with chase quickpay. all you need is an email address or mobile number.

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